President Muhammadu Buhari has described the controversial letter which former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote to him, advising him not to seek re-election in 2019 for a second term as insulting.
The President, who was answering questions on the Voice of America (VOA) Hausa programme today at the Washington DC in the United States of America said that he would not have bothered to respond to such insult but the mnister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed persuaded him to allow him (Lai) “to respond to the letter of insults released by Obasanjo.
“We spoke about it and I asked him not to respond but he refused and said he will just respond by stating the situation we met the country, where it is now and what was done in between and the monies we are getting.
“Recently, I had to come out and state that from 1999 to 2014, anyone who carries out a study here in America or Europe or India will know that we were producing 2.2 million barrels of crude oil daily at a price of at least $100 per barrel.
“In those 16 years of PDP rule, Nigeria was getting 2.1 million x 100 every day, every week, but when we came on board, the price fell to between $37 and $38 and hanged around $40/$50.
“I went to the CBN; the governor of CBN is here-and asked him how far and he said nothing was left apart from debts. I said but this is what the country made and he said yes, he knew, and I asked him where is the money? He told it was all gone.”
President Buhari said that his satisfaction was that Nigerians themselves knew that there were no roads or rail lines; there was no power, despite the billions of dollars spent.
“Only God will judge this thing.”
On what are the new things his is planning to do in his second term if he is elected, President Buhari said: “we have not even finished what we are doing now. Insecurity is still a problem. “The worst thing that Boko Haram are doing now to get small girls, hypnotize and put on explosive devices in them to go and detonate in Mosques, Churches, Motor Parks and Markets and kill people.
“However, they are not able to take over any territory now, although, even today, I read in some newspapers that Boko Haram are still holding territory. Well they may still be somewhere in Sambisa Forest, but the Nigerian Army have prevented them from coming out.” [myad]
