The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being a power-drunk, saying that the President is not the country’s messiah.
Speaking in an interview on Tuesday, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the Director of Publicity of the Forum, said the Nigerian leader is more interested in power than governance.
Baba-Ahmed said the forum thought the President was coming to save the nation from insecurity, bad economy, and poor leadership, but to their surprise, the President has not done anything different from the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
He disclosed that it has become very clear that the administration of President Buhari needed to approach governance with a sense of emergency, to do things differently from the way it was done.
The NEF spokesman said the President has failed to tackle corruption more decisively, to deal with the Boko Haram insurgency for which he was elected. Baba-Ahmed also lamented the inability of the forum to have access to the President and give ideas and suggestions.
Baba-Ahmed, however, said the Forum is not bothered by the “childish” comments of Femi Adesina, a presidential aide describing the NEF as a “mere irritant”.
