A foremost social critic, Deji Adeyanju has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s 61st independence day speech as mockery of Nigerians.
He expressed shock that Buhari commended the military despite their failures to curtail insecurity to the extent that parts of northern States including his home State, Katsina have become inaccessible.
He said: “It is beyond sad to hear president Buhari commending the military for failure in his Independence day speech. The North West, North Central and almost the entire country is almost a ‘no go area’ due to widespread insecurity.
Adeyanju while reacting to Buhari’s independence speech on Friday, revealed that bandits and terrorist groups have taken over 10 Local Government Councils of Katsina where President hails from.
“Terrorists groups control over 10 LGAs in the president home state of Katsina and collect taxes from residents openly and unchallenged. So many people who were killed by terrorists in Southern kaduna were buried yesterday. Dora Akunyili’s husband was gunned down recently in the South East yet the president praises the military for failure.
“The president also said he has discovered sponsors of IPOB and Oduduwa agitators but failed to talk about sponsors of Boko Haram that Dubai revealed recently because they are from his zone.
“The President apparently needs prayers for saying his administration is the best since 1999 and that Nigerians have never had it so good. It is unthinkable that the President of a nation should openly peddle so much falsehood like Buhari has just done.
“For context, cooking gas is N7,200 from N3,000 in 2015. $1 is N575 from N200 in 2015. The list goes on and on of the inflation records of the current administration. Nigeria has fallen completely to terrorists groups. This is a government that kills protesters but negotiate with terrorists. The whole country knows that this is the worst government in the history of our nation.”
