I’m Sorry, Forgive Me – Buhari’s Supporter Regrets Role In 2015 Poll
A staunch supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari has unreservedly apologised for mobilising electorates to vote the president during the 2015 election.
Nnamdi Asomugha, an Abuja based lawyer, joins several thousands of Nigerians who may have regretted the roles they played in bringing President Buhari into power in the last presidential election.
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Asomugha, in a Facebook post, likened President Buhari to an ’’anaconda’’ he returned with, after setting out to the marketplace to buy a fish.
He wrote, “my own apology. In 2015, I mobilised and voted President Buhari. I also did so in 3 other elections. I hereby tender my apologies to all. I set out to buy fish but didn’t know I purchased anaconda.“
Recall that a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Kanti Bello, had said sometime in 2017 that he regrets voting President Buhari in 2015.
“I really regret it now, because I thought it is going to be better than what we are having now. That’s why I couldn’t speak for two years because you cannot bring somebody and say he is the best, work hard for him and after one year you say he isn’t good. Is it fair?“ Bello had told Tribune in an interview.
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Similarly, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF) and 16 other leading northern groups have recently passed a vote of no confidence on the president.
The groups had jointly said in a communiqué in March that, “The hopes that leaders who have been in power since 2015 will reverse the abuse and neglect of the region in the previous decade have been betrayed.
“Weak governance, gross insensitivity and unacceptable levels of incompetence have been compounded by battles of attrition in which northerners have sapped one another’s strength.
“Weak and incoherent responses to provocations from other parts of the country around the imperatives of re-visiting the foundations and structures of the Nigerian state have created the false image of a North without its own positions beyond survival as the parasite of Nigeria. ”
