Ondopress
Sam Omatseye, the chairman of the editorial board of The Nation newspaper, has written a critical and mocking tribute about former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died on Sunday.
In an article published on Monday, Mr Omatseye ripped through the late president as the man who “presided over a sometimes cranky and conservative government, dead of ideas.”
He described Buhari as a man “dead of ideas, selfish and hypocritical.”
“He (Buhari) was a military leader, civilian bureaucrat, fighter for democracy as revenge rather than as ideologue, a presidential candidate as a supposedly repented autocrat, a serial loser with a Lincolnian strain, a president who developed a cult and fanatical following who bowed on the street and drank unclean water in his name.”
Condemning Mr Buhari for plunging Nigeria into a huge debt and mismanagement of the economy, Mr Omatseye said, “On the economy, he stood guard over a government that had no way to generate money except by printing and borrowing from China, among others.
“He gave us a debt of over N30 trillion in Ways and Means and several billions of dollars.“He left the finances in chaos, and the nation’s morale was at the nadir.
“In one word, Buhari should have saved the economy from the Jonathan era, where the nation was in dire straits. Rather, he worsened the situation and created an economy that had to be saved from itself.”