Tony Uranta, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian National Summit Group (NNSG) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s “kitchen cabinet” as bunch of “confused people.”
The self-acclaimed friend of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan made the claim while lamenting the inability of the Buhari’s administration to deliver on its electoral campaign promises.
Speaking with Vanguard, Uranta maintained that the administration of Buhari was based on lies.
Noting that Buhari is a man of principles, Uranta, however, berated him for failing to deliver on the “eldoraldo” he once promised Nigerians.
According to Uranus, “The Muhammadu Buhari administration promised to bring about ‘change’ when it assumed office in 2015. Do you agree the government has made good the promise?
“I think the administration is in love with the American Trump administration because both administrations appear to be working as twin brothers; pushing out lies as policy of state and expecting that their words would bring about change, not their actions.
“It is clear even to the blind and obvious to the deaf that Nigeria is in a mess and things are never this bad since the end of the civil war. I say this bearing in mind the fact that many people are going to react from two perspectives: One; that I am former President Jonathan’s friend and two, corruption is fighting back.
“On the second one, let Magu could come and arrest me and I will become rich because I would sue the whole nation because I have not benefitted corruptly from anybody, not even Jonathan or anybody that served in his government.
“While I sympathise with Jonathan that he lost the 2015 election, I thank God because if he had not lost, we wouldn’t have heard the last of it. Everybody would have been saying had Buhari got into power, Nigeria would have been an Eldorado.
“We all are seeing the Eldorado nonsense that Nigeria has descended into at this period. All I can say is that change, maybe was truly in the mind of especially President Buhari, who I think still has principles, even though I am not sure how nationalistic he is, he is surrounded by confused people, both in his cabinet and kitchen cabinet, not to talk of the people who have influence on him outside government.”
