{"id":59321,"date":"2017-08-29T14:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T13:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=59321"},"modified":"2017-08-29T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T13:30:41","slug":"buharis-critic-senator-kanti-bello-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/buharis-critic-senator-kanti-bello-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Buhari’s Critic, Senator Kanti Bello Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former Senator Representing Katsina East Senatorial Zone, Alhaji Kanti
\nBello is dead. Bello died in a hospital in Abuja early morning of\u00a0Tuesday<\/span><\/span>
\nat the age of 72 after a brief illness.<\/p>\n

He would be buried in the evening in Katsina Town according to Islamic
\nrites. The Senator was the former General Manager of Katsina Steel Rolling
\nMills and Served as the manager for over 10 years.<\/p>\n

Senator Kanti Bello is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
\nand a two- term senator representing Katsina East at the National
\nAssembly.<\/p>\n

The Senator graduated from faculty of Engineering at the Ahmadu Bello
\nUniversity, Zaria. He was on several times a gubernatorial candidate under
\nthe Defunct SDP, ANPP and APC.<\/p>\n

He is survived by a wife, several children and many grandchildren. Among
\nhis children is the Katsina State Commissioner for Resource Development,
\nAlhaji Mustafa Kanti Bello.<\/p>\n

Read Below his Interview of July 2017 on his views of the Buhari’s Govt<\/p>\n

BUHARI HAS FAILED, NO HOPE, SENATOR KANTI BELLO, SAYS APC LIED AGAINST
\nJONATHAN, PDP<\/p>\n

Senator Kanti Bello is a former Senate Majority Whip, who represented
\nKatsina North Senatorial District on the platform of the Peoples
\nDemocratic Party (PDP) before joining the defunct Congress for Progressive
\nChange (CPC), one of the legacy parties that formed the APC.<\/p>\n

*How will you assess the Buhari administration in the last two years?*<\/p>\n

I will be frank with you. This is the first interview I am giving in the
\nlast two years. I have decided to be quiet. The reason is simple: this is
\nour government and I contributed a lot for the government to be formed,
\nboth at the state and national level. I did it not for personal gain, but
\nI thought it would be the government that would assist the ordinary
\npeople; a government that will turn round the economy.<\/p>\n

I am a very practical person. I thought that a government, when it comes
\nto Buhari, will be able to put smiles on the faces of Nigerians. I know
\nthat there are some difficulties; I know that the price of oil has gone
\ndown. I know all that but the human expectations, of the ordinary people,
\nthe way the government works, I can say 90 per cent of Nigerians are
\ndisappointed. And the simple reason is this; when we voted for this
\ngovernment, we believed, it was not only corruption that we wanted it to
\nstop. We also felt that ordinary people should have enough to eat; they
\nshould have work to do. We expected some of our factories, especially up
\nNorth here, would be revitalised. But look at what is happening. I can
\ntell you, no nation with 120 million people can live and be a great nation
\nwhen it has to import the food it will eat and it has to import clothing.
\nWe have the land, a favourable climate. We have sunshine. So, there is no
\nreason we should be importing food and there is no reason why we shouldn\u2019t
\nbe clothing ourselves. The reason is simple; there is no agenda to get
\nthings done.<\/p>\n

*Are you still an APC member?*<\/p>\n

Yes<\/p>\n

*Are you saying your party didn\u2019t have a blueprint of what to do when it
\ntook over power?*<\/p>\n

Well, I don\u2019t see its implementation. Tell me one. For example, power
\ngeneration and transmission is one of the problems met by Buhari. Up till
\ntoday, how much are we generating? 4,000 megawatts?\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t gone beyond
\nthat!\u00a0 Is it not a disgrace for a government that is supposed to be moving
\nforward?\u00a0 Up till now, our factories, our industries are dead, our people
\nare poorer. Look at our economy, it has been so bad; the exchange rate,
\nthey say it has been improving. Improving?\u00a0 From N160 to a dollar, now it
\nis N368 to a dollar. Is that an improvement? Two years ago, it was N160 to
\nthe dollar. Is that something to be proud of?\u00a0 It reached almost N500. We
\nthank the acting president, because each time he comes in, there seems to
\nbe some improvements in the way things are done. We don\u2019t know why it is
\nhappening that way. Maybe it is his luck, but there are some little
\nimprovements.<\/p>\n

*You mean, each time the vice-president takes charge in acting capacity,
\nyou see improvement in governance?*<\/p>\n

Yes, I see little improvement.<\/p>\n

*Are you insinuating that Buhari lacks the capacity for the office?*<\/p>\n

Well, even if he has the capacity to do it, he didn\u2019t do it. Look, some of
\nus have to be honest with ourselves, I have nothing against Buhari but the
\nordinary people of this country are suffering today.<\/p>\n

Let me be frank with you, in Katsina, where I come from, people are
\nfinding it difficult to eat three times a day, not even two times. Things
\nare difficult. The economy is so bad, whatever you are buying, and
\ninflation has tripled. A bag of maize that used to sell at N4,000 when
\nBuhari took over is now selling at N16,000 and at that price, people
\naren\u2019t getting it to buy.<\/p>\n

I am a practical person. Do we look at all these and continue to praise
\nthe government? No! Yes, we praise the government when it comes to Boko
\nHaram, it has reduced its activities in the North-East and there is some
\nstability in parts of the North with regards to the bombings\u2014it has
\nreduced drastically or virtually gone. Yes, there is something good there
\nbut then after it has gone, there is kidnapping. People are being
\nkidnapped and murdered. We aren\u2019t safe, you cannot even travel from here
\nto Kaduna without feeling that something can happen to you. You see, we
\nhave got rid of one evil and another has come in.<\/p>\n

So, all we are saying is that Buhari and his APC government hasn\u2019t solved
\nour problems. I am part of that government and I apologise to the masses
\nthat our economic policy is a failure. We have scored 50 per cent on
\nsecurity but certainly the economic policy of the government has failed
\nthe masses, because I am part of the masses. People aren\u2019t living well in
\nthis country. That\u2019s the truth.<\/p>\n

*But, your party always attributes the poor state of the economy to
\nmismanagement by the immediate past administration; it claimed it
\ninherited huge liabilities from the PDP. What is your take?*<\/p>\n

No, come on! That\u2019s not true. We kept quiet about it, because we thought
\nthey were saying the truth. Look, how much money has the APC government
\nnow collected from the anti-corruption they are doing.<\/p>\n

Where is the money? Nobody is accounting for the amount of money they have
\nretrieved from people. Each time you hear so much billions. With that,
\nthere should have been some improvement. So, you cannot continue to blame
\nthe PDP. After two years, you are still blaming the previous government
\nand you have only four years. Now, we have spent over 50 per cent of the
\ntime blaming PDP.\u00a0 I think something is wrong with us. So, I think it is
\nhigh time our party stopped blaming [Goodluck] Jonathan, because the
\nordinary people somewhere with their anger are even saying that the
\nJonathan government was better. That\u2019s the truth. We are afraid to come
\nout and that\u2019s why some of us don\u2019t even speak, we worked hard and we
\nbelieved in what we were doing, we thought things would be better, but
\nincompetent people are put in charge and of course some people are behind
\nthe scene controlling Buhari.<\/p>\n

*You are making insinuation about a cabal, but the Presidency has always
\ninsisted that there is no cabal*<\/p>\n

What the hell are you talking about there? No cabal? Well, if there is no
\ncabal, the Buhari I know, I always wonder if he can behave the way these
\npeople are behaving. My reason: I have known Buhari since 1960, when I was
\na very small boy. He was my head boy in secondary school and the Buhari I
\nknew, the Buhari I invited to come and play politics, I think he shouldn\u2019t
\nhave been behaving the way he is behaving.<\/p>\n

The people that are appointed into positions, everybody knew in this
\ncountry, they aren\u2019t the first class. For example, even this
\nanti-corruption, the very first day it was reported that Babachir Lawal,
\nthe suspended Secretary to the Government of Federation (SGF) was
\nallegedly involved in a shady deal and there was evidence to that effect,
\nthe Buhari I knew would have sacked him but he couldn\u2019t do it. It was
\nlater I learnt that the man was suspended by the acting president.<\/p>\n

The Buhari I knew has no reason to keep Ibrahim Magu. If Magu was alleged
\nto be corrupt by the DSS report, so many people have been investigated and
\njailed because of DSS report, so is the DSS report supposed to be
\nimplemented, half-heartedly and selectively?\u00a0 For some people, it is
\nright, for others it isn\u2019t. And nobody is saying anything. Now, the same
\nDSS is saying that Magu has a case to answer and the Senate is saying it
\ncannot confirm Magu and the government, the one I thought is honest
\nenough, is still keeping that man. What for? Is he the only Nigerian that
\ncan do the job? I have nothing against Magu; I don\u2019t even know him but is
\nhe the only Nigerian that can occupy that office?\u00a0 There is supposed to be
\ncredibility in what government does. You keep telling me that they
\ninherited a bad economy, why did Nigerians elect Buhari in the first
\nplace? Is it not because we felt Jonathan wasn\u2019t doing the job and that he
\nshould come and correct it? That\u2019s the reason why we elected him. We
\ndidn\u2019t elect him for jokes; we didn\u2019t elect him to give excuses. We
\nelected him to correct things. Why is he not doing it? You see, we were
\nquiet, because we didn\u2019t want to talk, not because we thought what they
\nwere doing was right, but because we believed we should give him a chance
\nfor two years, if there will be improvement. But I am sorry to say I am
\ndisappointed.<\/p>\n

*Why are you so pessimistic? You mean you don\u2019t see hope of improvement in
\nBuhari\u2019s administration, in terms of performance?*<\/p>\n

No, I don\u2019t think there is much we can achieve. Look, two years into an
\nadministration is enough to make a landmark, because he has been looking
\nfor this job for so many years. Four times and he came in without an
\nagenda, only to bring in some little boys who know nothing?. Incompetent
\npeople were given appointments.<\/p>\n

*Incompetent people? Can you be specific?*<\/p>\n

No. You think about the people he appointed, from the ministers, to heads
\nof parastatal-agencies. Are they the best? I don\u2019t have to name anybody.
\nWhy should I?<\/p>\n

*You are saying Buhari cannot effect positive changes, but the national
\nchairman of your party, John Odigie-Oyegun, keeps saying the man is the
\nbest; that the 2019 ticket has been reserved for him. What do you have to
\nsay?*<\/p>\n

Oyegun can be as sycophantic as he wants, but the truth of the matter is
\nthat some of us are going to look for a Nigerian that\u2019s going to address
\nthe economy. Our problem is the economy and we are going to shop for a
\nNigerian who can help us solve it. You see, every generation has to face
\nsome challenges and our challenge now in this country is the economy. It
\nisn\u2019t a question of Buhari coming to fight insecurity; it isn\u2019t corruption
\nanymore, because you can only be corrupt when there is something to eat.
\nYes, it still thrives because nothing is going on and there is an
\nallegation that it is thriving under Buhari, only people that they dislike
\nare being arrested. Let me give you a typical example. Even this fight
\nagainst corruption, it seems to be one-sided. They said they arrested a
\nformer governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, because he collected
\nN100 million campaign money, but the same campaign money, I was made to
\nunderstand, was collected by Tony Anenih and he wasn\u2019t arrested. Is
\nAnenih\u2019s own different from that of Bafarawa? I don\u2019t like anything that
\nlooks sectional and we are going to look for a Nigerian with no vendetta
\nat all that wants to serve this country.<\/p>\n

*You are from Katsina. Can you mount the podium in your state and tell the
\npeople to reject Buhari at the poll?*<\/p>\n

Of course, why not? I was the one who went to Katsina to say Buhari was
\nthe best. Are the Katsina people not hungry now? Are they rich, because
\nBuhari is the president? Look, I have told you, I have nothing against
\nBuhari as a person, get that very clear. But his government hasn\u2019t worked
\nthe way it should and we should be honest enough to say it. Are you saying
\nbecause Buhari is president, Katsina people are now buying a bag of maize
\nfor N4,000? Are they very happy that bag of rice is now cheaper? Are they
\nhappy because the cloths they are wearing are now cheaper? Look, we are
\ntalking about reality and I am a practical realist. We have nothing
\nagainst Buhari, we like him, he is from our state, but we also like
\nourselves more than Buhari. Our children have to live well, have to get
\nbetter education. Why am I not accusing Katsina State government, because
\nit is doing their best but unfortunately at the federal level, things
\naren\u2019t working the way they should. The Federal Government is supposed to
\nshow the way for the states to follow and it is most unfortunate that they
\naren\u2019t doing it and some of us have to say it. That\u2019s the truth; I don\u2019t
\ncare what they say on the\u00a0 social media when they read this interview. We
\nare going to look for a Nigerian that\u2019s going to change this economy and
\nhelp the masses.<\/p>\n

*Do you think the APC can still win election, repeat the 2015 success story?*<\/p>\n

The way they are going, I don\u2019t think so. What APC are you talking about?
\nI have been there and I contributed a lot to the development of the party.
\nBut from day one when they formed the government, neither the government
\nnor the party has invited us for a meeting. I think people are fed up with
\nthe party, let me be frank with you. They are just living in a fool\u2019s
\nparadise, thinking that people are very happy.<\/p>\n

Let me tell you, we have a vice-president, who is now acting president;
\nlet me be frank with you, if there is no Buhari, he becomes the president
\nand that\u2019s what the constitution says. Let us give him the opportunity to
\nserve. I am not judging Buhari on a tribal basis, if I wanted to be
\ntribalistic, I will say he is the best thing that ever happened to Nigeria
\nlike some people have been saying but that\u2019s not the truth. I repeat, I
\nhave nothing personal against Buhari but the system is drifting; the
\ngovernment is sinking. We are in a mess.<\/p>\n

*You have dismissed your party, the APC as a failure. Is there an
\nalternative platform, because all the dominant opposition parties are in
\ncrises?*<\/p>\n

You are wrong. Look, I am telling you what is a party? If you want to
\ndefine a party, it is a congregation of people. Of course, we accused PDP
\nas a congregation of corrupt people, who were clueless. But some of these
\nclueless people, some of these corrupt people are now in APC. They are
\nthere and they have taken over the party. So, if some of us decide to go
\nand do something else and we get the right congregation of people to come
\nin, then we have a party. Party is about people. There is a saying that
\nthe number of people in the market defines its importance, not the number
\nof stalls in the market. So, that\u2019s the truth. People will decide, it
\nisn\u2019t a question of party now. Nigeria has to be salvaged, economically.
\nWe cannot continue this way, because if we continue this way, where are we
\nheading? We have to get people with the right economic sense, patriotic
\npeople who will come and solve this problem.<\/p>\n

*You said \u201cthe Buhari I knew\u2019\u2019 the other time.Are you of the opinion that
\nhe is being held captive by certain people?*<\/p>\n

I suspect so. It hasn\u2019t made sense to me, because there are certain things
\nI personally discussed with him and he told me, \u201cokay, it will be done.\u201d
\nThe Buhari I knew, if he gave you his word before, he would do it. But, he
\nhas changed. So, I believe that something is wrong. Maybe, his mind is no
\nlonger the one I knew, but I cannot determine, because since he got to
\npower I haven\u2019t been to the Villa. I only met him once in Katsina and we
\ndiscussed.<\/p>\n

*Have you been shut out or you refused to pay him a visit?*<\/p>\n

Do you walk into the Villa just like that? You have to seek for
\nappointment, isn\u2019t it? Nobody will ever give Kanti Bello appointment; they
\ndon\u2019t want to see my face there, because I had been a PDP person. After
\nworking for APC for four solid years: from PDP to APC. After working so
\nhard for it, I was shut out. That\u2019s the type of government we have.<\/p>\n

*What is your take on agitations for the restructuring of the country?
\nCertain groups like IPOB and MASSOB are actually demanding for its
\noutright balkanisation.*<\/p>\n

Let us be honest with ourselves, we have seen it in Southern Sudan now
\nwhich is a new country. Are they better off? The truth is that, they
\naren\u2019t. Why people are agitating for restructuring is simple: if you are
\nhungry and you aren\u2019t sure of the future of your children, then you start
\ncalling for restructuring. You have to look for an alternative. So, they
\nthink the country will be better, if restructured. That\u2019s their thinking.
\nI have no grudge against that but I believe it is wrong.<\/p>\n

Some of us thought once we had Buhari, this talk won\u2019t happen again. But
\nunfortunately, it has remained with us, because people aren\u2019t happy and we
\nneed somebody who is going to help the economy to be better. It isn\u2019t
\nimpossible. We need somebody who is a detribalised Nigerian. Maybe it is
\ndifficult to get but we will, with a lot of hard work, efforts that can
\nheal the wounds, so that after 2019, nobody will be thinking about
\nrestructuring again. That\u2019s what we need<\/p>\n

*Any regrets inviting Buhari to politics?*<\/p>\n

I really regret it now, because I thought it is going to be better than
\nwhat we are having now.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I couldn\u2019t speak for two years,
\nbecause you cannot bring somebody and say he is the best, work hard for
\nhim and after one year you say he isn\u2019t good. Is it fair? But after two
\nyears and looking at it, I can talk. I hope he gets well, come back and
\nfinish his two years. Whichever way, I don\u2019t see much out of it anyway,
\nbecause the first two years have been wasted, nothing to show for it.\u00a0 My
\nregret is what I would tell the ordinary people I convinced to vote for
\nBuhari.<\/p>\n

*What if he says, he is seeking a fresh mandate in 2019?*<\/p>\n

Let him come back and be well. We pray for him to come back in good
\nhealth. He has every right to seek for our mandate, but some of us also
\nhave a right to look for who will give Nigerians the best.<\/p>\n

*What if he reaches out to you and assures you that he would make amends?
\nWill you support him in 2019?*<\/p>\n

That\u2019s too theoretical. I don\u2019t want to answer that question, it is too
\ntheoretical. The truth of the matter is that, we are now in a mess. You
\ndon\u2019t seem to understand how difficult it is for the masses. Is it because
\nyou live in Abuja? Look, I know what people are passing through in my
\nvillage, this fasting period. People cannot eat. Now, you want me to go
\nand tell people to forget what happened in the last two years; that it is
\ngoing to be better. No, I am going to tell my people to look for an
\nalternative, what will help your kids to go to school and be able to live
\na better life. The middle class is now wiped out. This country is in a
\nhole, deep hole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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