Ex-Gov Duke says Buhari govt disconnected from reality, explains president’s worst problem

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, a presidential aspirant and former Cross River State governor, Donald Duke, has disclosed why he thinks he’ll be a better president than Muhammadu Buhari.

Duke, who did not only describe President Buhari’s leadership as an administration of many failings disconnected from reality, added that the worst problem of the President was not being prepared for leadership, as it took him six months to set up a cabinet.

He stated this during an interview with DW Africa, where he also scored President Buhari low in the fight against corruption, which has remained of the three topmost campaign of the current government.

On why he would be a better president, Duke said, “Because I see such obvious failings. I see a leadership that is steeped in the past; that has refused to evolve with a nation that is predominantly a nation of young aspiring people and still doing things the way they were done many years ago and did not work.

“I think our leadership in the country today is totally out of tune with the current reality of our nation. There is a disconnect somewhere so when you have a leadership that blames its young people for instance of not striving enough or of being lazy, there is disconnect because the tools to make them achieve their aspiration have not been provided.

“The President, himself, receives treatment abroad. That is a sad state of affairs.”

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According to the former governor the standard of education had continued to worsen under the current administration, adding that the fight against corruption has continued in error with the government fighting those persons perceived to be corrupt instead of building a system that could automatically prevent corruption.

On Buhari’s greatest problem he said, “They were not prepared for leadership. For example, it took six months to set up a cabinet. Where do you hear such? President Buhari came into office to fight corruption and insecurity.

“Let us look at the scorecard. Corruption is not dead. Prosecuting corruption is addressing the symptom and not the problem. The real problem is you have got to create jobs for people; you have got to strengthen institutions that make it almost impossible to engage in such an activity.”

 

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