By Kolawole Ojebisi
Former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Saturday, declared that Nigeria is in the woods because bandits have taken over the ship of the state.
El-Rufai clarified that the referenced bandits are not those denizens of the jungle who commit atrocities with guns and other deadly weapons but their urban version occupying the corridors of power.
He maintained that the country found itself in this pretty pass because Nigerians keep repeating the same mistake of electing the worst people into leadership positions.
El-Rufai made these claims on Saturday in Abuja while delivering a goodwill message at a public lecture with the theme, ‘Weaponisation of poverty as a means of underdevelopment: A case study of Nigeria’.
The occasion was organized to commemorate the 60th birthday celebration of former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi.
El-Rufai said, “Nigeria is in its biggest trouble since 1914, and that is why we are together working and conspiring to build a coalition to take Nigeria back on track because it is off track.
“It has turned to this level because we have allowed bandits, not the ones in the bushes, but the ones in the urban area, called the urban bandits, to take over leadership.
“I believe that the problem that we have is that we just get incompetent people, and we hand over leadership to them. Most of them don’t really know what to do. They just know how to grab power but don’t know what to do with it.”
The ex-FCT minister urged Nigerians to correct this anomaly in 2027 by standing up to vote for leaders who have the competence, capability, capacity and commitment to move the country forward.
