Former senator representing Kaduna Central in the upper chamber, Senator Sani Shehu, has berated former President Muhammadu Buhari for the current economic hardship in the country.
The PDP governorship candidate during the 2023 general election in Kaduna state who was a guest on Channels TV, said that some of the economic policies that President Bola Tinubu is implementing now which resulted to the economic hardship should have been implemented by Buhari whom he said failed to do so and allowed the economic situation to worsen.
He stated further; “We must be very factual and realistic with ourselves; the problem we find ourselves today, originated, was engineered, fabricated and sustained by the Buhari administration. The Buhari administration, institutionally, fundamentally destroyed the Nigerian economy”.
While commenting on President Tinubu’s policies and their attendant consequences on the current situation, the former lawmaker emphasized that having said he would implement the policies he has implemented so far during campaign, Tinubu did not deceive Nigerians.
He stressed further; “When Tinubu took over, he knows there is not going to be subsidy and to be realistic, he was very frank during his campaign. He said, ‘I am going to remove subsidy and whatever protest that will come out of it I will not back down’ and then people went ahead and voted for him, so he has not deceived Nigerians.
Now he is in power, we are paying the price for the mistake of the past, for the failure of the past and for what we have refused to do in the past, so this is the reality”.
