Former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung has claimed that former President Muhammadu Buhari is living in regret after his allies “dragged his name in the mud.”
In an interview with Trust Radio, Dalung, who served under Buhari’s government, upheld his responsibility as a founding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to speak the truth.
He described Buhari as a very honest leader who believed in the people around him, but unfortunately, his name was dragged in the mud by them.
Dalung also stressed that the Buhari administration failed to fulfill the promises made to Nigeria during the 2015 campaign.
Despite its failure, he believed that the APC’s administration between 2015 and 2019 recorded modest progress, as the level of insecurity was not as bad as it currently was.
He said:
“We failed to meet our expectations, and I am not hypocritical because as a major stakeholder who campaigned vigorously in 2015 and went to the nooks and crannies of the north, of all the promises we made, we fulfilled none of them.
“The political covenant we had with Nigerians while campaigning was that we were going to address the security situation; we were going to revamp the economy; and we were going to give corruption a major technical blow so that we could minimize it to the barest minimum.
“Looking back, reflecting, and evaluating the situation as it is today, we failed woefully.
“He (Buhari) is a very honest man who believed that everybody around him was an honest person, he brought them and trusted them. Today, I believe he is living in regret.
“They have dragged his name and integrity not only into the mud and they’ve reduced his image.
“Banditry and terrorism got minimized in terms of attacks, but it’s still flourishing, the complete change of dynamics in the security situation worse than ever before in the history of this country, and is a remarkable failure and indictment too on the APC, because these were not part the democratic covenant they had with Nigerians.”
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