Former military Head of State and
Congress for Progressives Change
(CPC) national leader, General
Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), yesterday
opened up on why he shed tears in
public during one of his presidential
campaign rallies in 2011, saying he
wept for Nigeria.
Buhari, who was guest of the week on a
Kaduna-based radio station, revealed that
when he read an article in one of the
newspapers and saw the amazing
opportunity Nigeria got through
petroleum resources from 1999 to 2011,
he shed tears.
“That was the only time I broke down
publicly; it was as a result of an article in
a paper I read before the 2011 general
elections… And I saw the amazing
opportunity we got through petroleum
resources from 1999 to the time I shed
tears, and I saw the state of the country,
the decay in infrastructure and that
people were just in a position of
irresponsibility and they were just doing
their own thing minding their own
business”, he said.
“Nigeria is absolutely mature but the
execution is the beginning of the
problem, all the laws have been put in
place but it appears like people are just
doing their own thing and it is a tragedy
in Nigeria. The people at the top, at
various levels, are just doing what they
like, not what the constitution of the
country prescribes”, he noted.
The three-time presidential aspirant
blamed the country’s elite for the path
democracy is taking; saying the running of
the country is the “responsibility of the
elite including you, me and those that
have had the opportunity to go to school
to earn correct entry points into various
professions”.
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