RECESSION: BUHARI IS RESPONSIBLE – EZEIFE

Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, who was Third Republic Governor of Anambra State as well as being a former Presidential Adviser on Political Matters to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. has spark on burning national issues including economic recession, the debate on sale of national assets and the Biafran agitation, among others.

He explained that putting blame on the past administration will not solve the problem, if the case, let he(Buhari) reverse the economy back as it was before he took over.

I have told many people that the blame-game must stop. Now, that (blame-game) is the most stupid thing to do. If it was the fault of the last administration, let him take us to all the things as they were during that administration. Let him take us to the price of rice that was obtainable before he took over; take us to that petrol price; take us to the exchange rate; take us to the market as it existed; take us back to what it was when you took over. Any blame-game is a waste of time.

Meanwhile, he noted that Northerner are against restructuring the country based on 36 states created by military to favour the north and to defeat Biafrains in all ramification.
He said;

 Now, the political aspect of it has to do with how to begin to create more states. Ironsi recognized 26 provinces, not states and we said he was going to make Nigeria a unitary system and killed him. Now, after killing him, they wanted to defeat Biafra in war, they started with 12 states and eventually we got to 36 states plus Abuja; and northern military men created the states to favour the North. That is why you hear some people from the North attacking restructuring.

He also kicked against sell of national assets, stating that only corrupt people, who have stolen our money will buy it.

Who will buy them? National assets are very heavy things. Only those who dumped our money in foreign banks can bring tiny bits of what they stole to buy our national assets. It is a matter of thinking about fairness. When you call the people who have stolen our money, who would compete with them? Let them sell the assets and you would find out who bought them and from where. You would find that it is not a fairly-spread participation. So, it is unjust to compound injustice and to give advantage to the more corrupt members of the society.