Unic Press UK: The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, on Wednesday, the 24th August 2016, raised alarm over the governance of Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari.
Sanusi who spoke in Kano during the Joint Planning Board( JPB) and The National Council on Development Planning (NCDP) meeting, said:
“You may not like it but that is the truth. You have to listen.
“You don’t have to be an economist to know that any system that allows you to sit in your garden, and with a telephone call, make one billion Naira without investing a kobo, that system is wrong. It is unsustainable.
“And just so we are not always blaming the previous administration. We have also made mistakes in this administration. We have started retracing our steps or we have to retrace those steps.
“And if we fall into the same holes that we fell into the last time where the government is always right… If a policy is wrong, it is wrong. Nothing will make it right and it has to be changed.
“And many of them are not economists,” the Emir said. “They are demagogues.”
“Look, I’m not going to change. I am never going to be political. I will never tell people what they like to hear. There is nothing we are facing today that we did not know will happen. That is the truth. We made mistakes, many of them deliberate. We ignored every single warning.
“If you take a brand new car, and give a driver who doesn’t have a license to drive it and you have an accident, you really can’t say you are surprised unless you are some kind of idiot.
“If we do not expand the economy through wise investment, we can end up in classical Malthusian situation.
“If this government continues to behave the way the last government behaved, we will end up where Jonathan ended.”
