The spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has said former President Muhammadu Buhari was a huge disappointment to Nigerians.
Baba-Ahmed said Nigerians expected more from the former leader in the areas of fighting insecurity and corruption but failed to deliver in his eight years in office.
According to the NEF spokesman, Buhari failed the Northern region, the country, and the electorates that trooped out to give him the kind of votes that no other President ever had in 2015.
In an interview with The Punch, Baba-Ahmed said Buhari raised a lot of expectations but left the country a lot worse than he met it.
He, however, expressed hope that President Tinubu will have learnt from Buhari’s weaknesses and failures to create a radically different government from the last administration and do better than Buhari.
He said: In a word, expectant! Yes, expectant, because we expect that President Tinubu will do phenomenally better than Buhari. The immediate past President was a woeful disappointment.
“He failed the nation. He failed the North. He failed the electorates that trooped out to give him the kind of votes that no other President has ever had. He raised a lot of expectations but left the country a lot worse than he met it.
“So, we are hoping that if Tinubu continues to be the President after all these judicial processes have been concluded, he will have learnt from President Buhari’s weaknesses and failures to create a government that is radically different from that of President Buhari because this country has to move on.
“We don’t have another eight years to lose. There’s a very high expectation that we will have good governance, we will have a secure country, and we will have a compassionate government.”
