Solomon Dalung, a former Minister of Youth and Sports, has claimed that former President Muhammadu Buhari was exploited and discarded by the political elite.
Dalung made this statement during an appearance on the Mic On podcast, hosted by Seun Okinbaloye, with a brief clip of the conversation shared on social media.
Dalung, who served as minister under Buhari from November 2015 to May 2019, remarked that the political elite leveraged Buhari’s charisma to seize power from Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 election.
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“Buhari was also used and dumped,” Dalung said in response to a question on whether the ex-president performed creditably.
He added, “Buhari’s charisma was needed at that point in time by the political elite to eliminate Goodluck Jonathan.
“And shortly after Buhari had taken over power, these sets of political elite emerged and hijacked the government.
“Buhari was a stranger in his own government and I can say this at any point in time. I can collaborate this because I went to see the president when I was in office.
“I told him ‘Mr President, this wasn’t what we told Nigerians. I have conscience. We campaigned and convinced Nigerians and when I look at the type of investment that the common people put in our government and here we are today with insecurity. When we came in, it was only the Northeast.’
“As at 2020, I told him it was not possible to even travel between Abuja and Kaduna.”
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