Bode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says the country is in shamble under the watchful eyes of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
According to the PDP chieftain, Nigeria “has been completely in a shambolic situation, it is perpetual despair and despondency,” telling the president that it is not the time to play politics with the problem facing the country at the moment.
George said President Tinubu “has a hell of a job to do” to lift the country out of the current economic decadence left by his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari.
The administration recently accused the former leader of destroying the economy after spending eight years in office.
The PDP chieftain while speaking on a Channels Television programme, said Buhari left a bad economy that has left many Nigerians in hunger, a situation President Tinubu must now work hard to reverse.
“The state of our nation has been completely in a shambolic situation, it is perpetual despair and despondency. There is hunger in the land and there is anger in the land; the insecurity has gone beyond control,” he stated.
He said further: “So, when you look at all those things; we are all Nigerians and I listened to his (Tinubu) New Year speech and I also listened to what Chief Osoba said, this is not the time to play politics, it is our nation. He (Tinubu) has a hell of a job to do and I have listened to him.
“He has these eight objectives for the year, national defence, internal security, and job creation; the man who left who was my oga did a woeful job, he did not do well at all; they belong to the same party.
“So, we all Nigerians will give him a chance, let us see how he is going to handle it. Bola Tinubu, God will guide him – he is in the hottest seat in the whole of Africa today because for every 10 Africans 6 are Nigerians, brilliant people. So nobody can pull any wool over our eyes, I pray for him, I pray for our country.”
An ardent critic of President Tinubu, Chief George once vowed to leave the country if Tinubu became president.
He has yet to relocate from the country after Tinubu won last year’s presidential election.
