Bode George, former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday, says President Muhammadu Buhari eight-year administration was woeful.
He added that he has forgiven his successor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and if he calls him to serve, he will do so.
The PDP leader, speaking in a chat with newsmen at his Ikoyi office, while analysing the outgoing administration of Buhari, declared that he failed to live up to expectations adding that he did not impact the lives of Nigerians positively, even on security, his core responsibility.
His words: “My personal assessment is that he failed, not completely in every sector, but if you do an examination and say you must have a minimum of 33 percent, then you can go to the next class, but they did not attain that 33 percent. I can give them maybe about five per cent, even the five per cent requires a lot of retrospection. The most important thing you must guarantee to your people, as a government, is security of lives and property, who is safe now?
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“So it is very very disheartening and heartbreaking that he failed in his number one job, which is to guarantee security of lives and property. You know when he was coming in, oga (Buhari) was telling us, I would fight corruption, I will secure the lives and properties of the people, I will do this, I will do that, all kinds of promises.
“So let’s put those promises now into his departure, because that’s what will be written on the pages of history. Whatever a leader does during his time, it is on the pages of history.”
Asked whether he would work with Tinubu if called upon, George said: “There is nothing personal, this country trained me and I have to give back.”
On his reluctance to endorse Tinubu, he said: “I have forgiven him, but cannot forget.”
