2019: Hon. Kaze gives Buhari condition

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, a former member of the House of
Representatives, Hon. Bitrus Kaze said if President Muhammadu Buhari
can return Nigeria to what it were before he took over in 2015, the
citizenry will be glad.

He added that removing him from office come 2019, will at least stop
the country from going down the drain.

Kaze in an exclusive interview with DAILY POST said, "Go to the
streets and find out, in fact if only Buhari can return Nigeria to
what it was, as at the time he took over in May 29th, 2015, we will be
so glad.

"If he can return the naira to N190 to a dollar, the fuel to N87 per
litre, if he can return our foreign reserves to what they were before
he took over; reduce interest rate to what it was, reduce inflation to
a single digit like it was before he took over; infact that would be a
huge achievement.

"Because ever since he took over, we are not sure we have seen any
value addition, or seen any clear policy direction of the government",
he lamented.

"For instance, if you hear anything about the railway, agriculture,
power; some of these policies have been in place since the days of
Obasanjo.

"They were simply carried out by former Presidents Yar'adua and
Goodluck, for which dividends are beginning to manifest only when he
(Buhari) came in, not because of him.

"Take the railway for example, I'm not sure he has invested a dime in
it, and even if he did, that sector is a time consuming sector. So
also the power is a time consuming sector.

"So any little gain you are able to see is not because of any policy
direction of the Buhari administration its simply because of the gains
of the policies that existed.

"But if the Buhari administration believes it has done any good to
Nigerians, we should see it on ground.

Kaze who represented Jos South/Jos East constituency between 2007 to
2015, further stated that,
"No matter how you fight corruption, no matter all the monies you
claim you have recovered, if it does not put food on the table of a
poor man, provide roads, electricity, water, quality education,
improve healthcare of the citizenry; you have done nothing.

"Is it not the same government that claimed it is fighting corruption,
that the court actually said, exposed those from whom you collected
these monies and the process from which you collected these monies.

"We suspect those who are affected are in the APC government, that's
why they have not been able to expose them.

"Recently a former Director General of the NIA, exposed a fact that a
committee headed by a former Secretary to the Government of the
Federation in this country whom the President setup, wanted to swindle
millions of dollars recovered in Lagos.

"We've reach a point in this country, merely because you belong to PDP
or APC does not mean you should be ascribe integrity status, let
everybody answer his father's name as far as corruption is concern.

"Corruption is not a matter of the PDP alone, corruption is prevalent
even in this present administration.
The only difference is that; whereas the PDP was able to convict its
own Inspector General of Police, the present government cannot convict
the smallest of its officials captured in corruption.

"They bring them back with the aim to promote them further, by
rewarding them with political positions.

On whether President Buhari should seek a second term, the PDP
Chieftain said, "Buhari should take a cue from Thabo Mbeki and Jacob
Zuma, of South Africa who resigned.

"But if these two are not enough examples for him, he should take cue
from his elder brother, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

"In as much as health is not something anybody can guaranteed about
anybody, surely we wish him well. But it is obvious that no matter how
healthy he feels, that truth is that, he is no longer as strong as he
use to be in his younger days as Military Head of State.

"Why can't he identify the key role of a leader? It is the
responsibility of a Moses to be able to identify a Joshua, to take the
people to the promise land.

"There are many young politicians even from his home state Katsina,
that he can look up to and allow them to carry on.

"The problem I think the president has is that, he doesn't believe
anybody; and education teaches us that, you do not know until you know
that you do not know. That's the truth.

"The moment you realize that somebody knows better or that someone can
offer better ideas than yours, that is when you realize you know
something.

"But the President hardly have confidence in anyone, he believes that
once he is no longer there, Nigeria will collapse; Nigeria has been
there before him, Nigeria will continue to be after him. Infact
Nigeria will achieve a lot the day Buhari leaves government.

"Bishop Kukah said removing Buhari will not solve Nigeria's problems,
he may be right. However, if removing him can at least stop Nigeria
from going down the drain, at least when he is out, we can have our
country back," he stressed.