President Muhammadu Buhari has been described as a chameleon that cannot change its skin, by the chairman emeritus of DAAR Communications PLC, Raymond Dokpesi.
Dokpesi who made his comments in an interview with The Sun, noted that the president’s present style of government was no different from when he was military Head of State between 1983 and 1985.
According to the chieftain of the Advance Peoples’ Democratic Alliance (APDA), Buhari had no knowledge of economics, and had divided the country.
He stated:-
“Everything that APC has done, some of us came out very clearly, to say we were in this country from 1983 December to 1985 when General Babangida overthrew Buhari and we saw decisions that were taken, we saw the governance and based on that, believing very fairly that a chameleon cannot change its skin, said there would be nothing different, we are going to get exactly what we got then, it is going to be the same style, it is going to be the same shortcomings, because this man appears not to understand economics at all.
“Nigeria has not been so divided like it is today, Niger Delta people are giving October 1st date as deadline, the youths from the north also are calling for whatever.
“It has never happened in the history of Nigeria. Have we been in this type of confusion and mess and instability before?
“Never has the ordinary man been so hungry and frustrated. Both the rich, the middle class and the poor cannot afford to pay their children school fees.”
Speaking on how the Buhari government came into power and their performance so far, he stated: “The PDP government that we had in 16 years as a human institution must have made mistakes; that is why they were given an opportunity to come in.
“So it is not a time for excuses and so on. It is a time of taking cognizance of all the mistakes we said the PDP made and they will have started correcting them and I would have been the first person to acknowledge the fact that, ‘this is good,’ but there is no step.
“I have not seen any achievement in any area that is acceptable and good.
“The number of millions of youths that come out and are unemployed, are growing by the day, jobs are not created.”
Meanwhile, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi accused the government of the All Progressives Congress, APC of marginalizing the peoples of the South East.
He noted that the APC had relegated the Igbos since it assumed office over 15 months, adding that it is against the visions of the founding fathers of Nigeria as well as against the spirit and character of the constitution which advocated equality, federal character in appointments.