Buba Galadima: How God Disgraced Me
By PHC Telegraph
“I spoke to journalists and I said something” Buba Galadima said on AriseNews during a live interview Monday night.
‘Me that speak to you seated here”, he further stated on PrimeTime “was one of the greatest critics of Jonathan’s presidency.. .
“I didn’t know that God will disgrace me to show me that Jonathan was even a saint and a better administrator than those that follow him.”
Galadima, a chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, observed at a moment of great reflection that the level of insecurity in the country has made him reassess his past criticisms of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
According to him, he was once one of Jonathan’s “greatest critics”. Now, he said, he believes that the Nigerian leader performed creditably in managing national security matters than those who succeeded him.
The fierce critic recalled that in the buildup to the 2015 general elections, Jonathan postponed the polls for six weeks to address rising insecurity.
He claimed that the former president brought in mercenaries who helped to stabilise the country, paving the way for elections to hold in every polling unit nationwide.
Galadima argued that the Tinubu government would not take similar steps if faced with a similar situation, purporting that it would instead allow insecurity to worsen in order to manipulate the electoral process.
“First, he is a third world leader. The insecurity reached its highest level, six weeks, I mean, some few days to election. And Jonathan suspended the election, put off the election, and took another six weeks and brought mercenaries.
“If this government today has that opportunity of chaos, one or two weeks to election, they will allow it continue so that they can write figures and announce themselves as winners.
“But Jonathan stopped that election, and he knew for sure that if there was a free and fair election, no incumbent government can get second term.
“He’s an educated man with PhD. He knows that, but because of his humane nature, he postponed the election for six weeks, brought in mercenaries, and within six weeks, those mercenaries stabilized Nigeria, and there was no polling booth in Nigeria that elections did not take place”.