Nigerians dissatisfied with Buhari’s administration, says Ohanaeze

The Chidi Ibeh-led faction of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, said that Nigerians are disgruntled with President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in areas of insecurity and war against corruption, adding that Nigeria is divided along ethnic and religious lines, which has set the country 100 years backwards.

In a statement in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, the Secretary General of the faction, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, noted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) government came in 2015 with high hopes that there will be improved security of life and property, as well as fight against corruption.

Isiguzoro, therefore, expressed disappointment that after almost eight years in office, security challenges escalated from three Northeast states to 33 states across the country, even as nepotism and favoritism heightened corruption.

He said: “Consequences of this is that the country is divided across ethnic and religious lines, and the economic administrators of the Buhari government did not help matters.

“Nigeria has seen its worst era in decades, and this led to two recessions as citizens could not cope with hikes in prices of essential commodities.

“The worst of it all was the failed naira redesign and cashless policy, in which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) failed to facilitate a process of cushioning the hardship associated with scarcity of banknotes.

“However, Ndigbo witnessed revolutionary changes in infrastructural development in the South East, irrespective of sidelining the region in political appointments against the principle of Federal Character.”

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation noted that Buhari’s legacies to the region remain monumental and historic, saying there were evidence of more infrastructure development across the South East within this period than the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) 16 years in power.

The Igbo cultural body stressed that completion of the Second Niger Bridge, upgraded facilities at Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu, to international standard, assisting Ebonyi government in the realisation of Abakiliki Airport are some of Buhari’s legacy projects in the region.

Others, according to the group, is granting free trade zone to the ongoing Enyimba Economic City project, reopening of Onitsha Dry Sea Port that had remained closed for 46 years, and improved condition of federal roads in the region.

“Ndigbo, however, regret non-realisation of railway rehabilitation and deep sea projects, which were realised in other geo political zones,” Isiguzoro added.