A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and former commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism in Niger State, Mr. Jonathan Vatsa, asked president Muhammadu Buhari to turn to God, and not Nigerians, for forgiveness.
Vatsa said for the president to publicly come
out to ask for forgiveness showed the blood of innocent Nigerians, including
women and children killed and spilled across the country by killer herdsmen
were haunting him.
The former publicity secretary of the APC in
Niger State, told newsmen in Minna, that apart from the president’s negative
policies that have sent millions of Nigerians to employment market, early
graves and permanent poverty, the eight years of Buhari’s administration were
the worst in the country’s history.
Vatsa said there was no way the millions of
traumatised Nigerians could forgive Buhari.
He claimed President Buhari did not come to
power with good intentions for the majority of citizens, but with a different
agenda, saying “unfortunately he met a very sophisticated Nigeria and it was
difficult to implement his agenda.”
Vatsa who flayed the president’s poor
handling of security challenges in the last eight years wondered which category
of Nigerians he imagined would forgive him.
“Is it the women whose husbands have been
killed by armed bandits or men that whose wives were raped and in some cases
killed by bandits or children that have been turned to orphans because his
government failed to discharge its primary responsibility of protecting
innocent Nigerians, or is it parents of female students and married women that
have been abducted by bandits, raped and impregnated, given birth and sent back
to their parents because his government failed to protect them?
“When you stayed in the villa and enjoyed the
protection of security as the Nigerian president and gave out your daughters
hands in marriage both in Abuja and in Kano at a luxury wedding, the daughters of
poor and innocent Nigerians were being raped by bandits in the jungle, some of
them came back with unwanted pregnancies and babies, some of them did not have
the luxury of giving their daughters hands in marriage even if it was in a
low-key ceremony…Your last project of currency re-design, up till now I don’t
know if we made gain or loss, but I know common Nigerians suffered dearly for
it, and are still suffering, some even died…
“When he was a military officer, he fought
the civil war to keep Nigeria one, when he became civilian president he divided
Nigeria along ethnic lines, he was only concerned with his brothers and nephews
in the Niger Republic and even took a rail line to them.”
Vatsa said in years to come, Nigerians would
continue to remember the pains, agony, and sorrow the Buhari’s administration
inflicted on them, saying, “We struggled to bring this government to power in
2015 but we never knew that things will turn out to be like this, where
Nigerians cannot travel freely and even sleep with their two eyes closed.
Before he leaves, rather than seeking forgiveness from Nigerians, he should
equally give us a rail line from Minna to Abuja, Abuja to Lokoja, and Abuja to
Makurdi- Port Harcourt and Jos to Maiduguri.”
He added that if the president was really
seeking forgiveness from Nigerians, he should refund all the money collected by
bandits from innocent Nigerians and compensate them, especially the doctor that
died in the Abuja-Kaduna train attack.
“It is easy to say forgive me but whether
Nigerians can forgive you is another matter and I think that will not happen
because Nigerians are in pain. I foresee you being the first president in
Nigeria to be taken to the international criminal court. Be ready in case it
happens.”
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