President Muhammadu Buhari has told critics he does not care the opinion they have of late dictator Sani Abacha claiming that during his rule Nigeria achieved significant progress in construction and education.
Buhari said this when he received members of the Buhari Support Organisations (BSO) led by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Colonel Hameed Ali (retd), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
“I went to the CBN Governor, with my cap in my hand, and asked if we had savings. He told me we had only debts, no savings. Some of the roads were not repaired since the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) days.
This afternoon President @MBuhari welcomed executives of the Buhari Support Organisation (BSO) to the State House. #AsoVillaToday pic.twitter.com/yCeke9M9AI
— Presidency Nigeria (@NGRPresident) May 22, 2018
“I don’t care the opinion you have about Abacha but I agreed to work with him and we constructed roads from Abuja to Port Harcourt, Benin to Onitsha and so on. We also touched education and health institutions.
He went on to speak on monies spent on electricity by past governments. “One of the former Heads of State was bragging that he spent more than 15 billion dollars on power in Nigeria. Where is the power?” the President asked, without mentioning any name.
Most of the electricity projects, President Buhari spoke about were awarded during the second term of the Obasanjo administration(2003 and 2007), and the result has only been creeping into the national grid, to the extent that 11 years after, Nigeria is yet to enjoy stable power supply.
President Buhari urged Nigerians to remain vigilant and ensure that only “people of conscience are in-charge of governance at all levels”, as the nation prepared for general elections in 2019.
