{"id":76007,"date":"2020-09-30T20:18:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=76007"},"modified":"2020-09-30T20:18:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:18:55","slug":"nigeria-at-60-timi-frank-knocks-buhari-over-divisive-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/nigeria-at-60-timi-frank-knocks-buhari-over-divisive-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria at 60: Timi Frank knocks Buhari over divisive role"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A foremost political analyst and commentator, Comrade Timi Frank, has described the leadership contributions of the Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), as the worst and most divisive in the history of the country.<\/div>\n
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\nFrank who made this assertion in a statement in Abuja, to mark Nigeria\u2019s 60th Independence Anniversary, however congratulated Nigerians for their resilience and never-say-die spirit in the face of daunting and mounting economic, social and political challenges.<\/p>\n

He urged Nigerians to find a way to make themselves happy notwithstanding the harsh economic realities which has been further aggravated by the recent sharp increases in the pump price of fuel and electricity tariffs by an uncaring administration.<\/p>\n

He flayed the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and\u00a0 the Trade Union Congress (TUC) for taking Nigerians for a ride by suspending its proposed indefinite strike called to protest increase in pump price of petrol and electricity tariffs.<\/p>\n

He called on the leaders of all trade unions affiliated to the NLC to immediately pass a vote of no confidence on the NLC and TUC executives for\u00a0 betrayal and colossal embarrassment of the organized labour.<\/p>\n

He urged Nigerians to remain resolute and steadfast because \u201ctough times never last but tough people do\u201d adding that the country shall yet emerge from this economic darkness into a new dawn of prosperity with adequate security.<\/p>\n

He insisted that Buhari\u2019s reign from December 1983 to August 1985 as military ruler and his present stint, have been characterized by mis-governance, cluelessness, pretense, wickedness, corruption, impunity, hardship, intolerance and pauperization of the people.<\/p>\n

Frank, a former Deputy National Publicity\u00a0 Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), noted that life has become increasingly nightmarish and unbearable for the people as virtually every sector of the economy has collapsed under the present administration.<\/p>\n

He lamented the rising insecurity situation in the country notwithstanding that a retired General is the President.<\/p>\n

The Bayelsa-born political activist\u00a0 insisted that the rising cases of killings, rape, kidnapping, road crashes are direct fallouts of the failure, ineptness and cluelessness of the present administration to proactively secure the lives and property of citizens and embark on necessary infrastructural renewal.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing salutary can be said of the Buhari\u2019s regime as Military Head of State and even now as a supposed leader in a democracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. President must therefore use the occasion of Nigeria at 60 to plead for forgiveness and initiate progressive policies that would reunite the nation as an indivisible entity,\u201d Frank said.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWith Nigeria attaining 60 years of nationhood, Buhari\u2019s only legacy that is visible to Nigerians are his divisive tendencies and infliction of unbearable pain, sorrow, tears and hardship on innocent citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is there in celebrating empty numbers when the standard of living of an average Nigerian does not portray any modicum of socioeconomic progress, befitting of citizens of a country that has been independent for six decades?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unfortunate that Buhari has contributed immensely in stagnating and ruining the potentials of a well endowed nation – both as a military head of state and democratic leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis religious bigotry and ethnocentric ideology, has further expanded the nation\u2019s fault lines and made ineffective the towering legacies bequeathed by past administrations.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder Buhari, impunity and corruption have attained dizzying heights while insecurity continues to spread like wildfire in parts of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cBesides, the fight against corruption – one of his administration\u2019s cardinal agenda – has become a child\u2019s play.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Legislature and Judiciary that are supposed to check the executive have become soulless appendages of the Presidency under Buhari – whose interference has become the worst ever, in the history of democratic governance in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Judiciary has never been this abused, and compromised. Justice is now sold like a commodity in a market stall.<\/p>\n

\u201cCourt judgments are being dished out to suit the whims and caprices of those in the Presidency while Buhari continuously feigns ignorance.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigeria which used to be a pride among the comity of nations, has suddenly become the hunger capital of the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe level of hunger, poverty and despair has risen to disturbing heights, while the economy has plunged to its lowest ebb despite humongous loans already amassed with nothing to show for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

He commended the Governments of the United States, United Kingdom and European Union for the pressure it mounted on the Buhari\u2019s administration which brought about a transparent, free and credible governorship election in Edo state.<\/p>\n

According him, \u201ctheir timely intervention was partly responsible for the preservation and consolidation of democracy witnessed in Edo State on 19th September, 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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