By Tosin Olatokunbo
The President Muhammadu Buhari has pushed Nigerians to the wall and revolution cannot be totally ruled out in the unforeseen future, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC Buba Galadinma has warned.
The APC big hat is a former ally of the president but has since turned his back on him over Buhari’s style of leadership.
Galadinma made the comment on the crest of calm that has returned to the country after the EndSARS protest that many said took the president and his advisers by surprise, and has demystified Buhari as a popular leader among Nigerians.
Some prominent leaders from the north including governors have dismissed the EndSARS protest as an attack on the region and President Buhari’s government.
But the APC chieftain said the politics of exclusion by the administration is “leading this country into a revolution that they don’t want to accept. They are the people causing the revolution by excluding, disenfranchising people not on the basis of competence but on the basis of ‘they don’t belong’. That is why we need a leader that is a large-hearted Nigerian who will carry us all along, not because he is an Idoma man or a Bade man.
“Do they know? One of my friend’s sons wanted to join the Police Force. He was asked by these faceless people to pay an amount of money for him to be recruited. My friend told his son, ‘even if I had the money, I won’t pay, besides, I don’t even have the money. If you are recruited because I paid the money, you are also going in there to help yourself to make the money back.”
He said corruption has become more pronounced in the administration, especially among civil servants, who he said, have compromised the public trust and now acting as they like.
He dismissed suggestions among some northern elements that those not happy with the Buhari’s administration are trying to use undemocratic means to bring it down.
According to him “it is shameful of them that when their kith and kin are being killed in Borno, Zamfara, Kano, Yobe, Adamawa, Katsina, Sokoto, Kaduna, Kano, Kebbi and Niger, they had no guts to come out or allow their people to protest, because the primary responsibility of every government is to protect the lives and property of citizens.
“In this respect, the government at all levels including the states in the north have failed. Youths who are victims (of police brutality) came out to protest. Is that wrong? And some people now come out to say they want to overthrow the government.”
He said the protesting youths have sent a strong message to the government that things cannot remain the same again.
