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What Transpired Between Buhari And I In Saudi Arabia—Galadima

<h4>What Transpired Between Buhari And I In Saudi Arabia<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that a chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party&comma; NNPP&comma; Alhaji Buba Galadima&comma; has opened up on the political acrimony between him and President mohammadu Buhari&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two leading political heavy weights from northern Nigeria have come a long way as political comrades&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Indeed&comma; the two were in the vanguard of the team that upstaged People&&num;8217&semi;s Democratic Party&comma; PDP from federal government in 2015&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Before 2015&comma; Galadima was the National Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change&comma; CPC&comma; a party formed in the run-up to the 2011 national elections as a leading platform for Buhari to emerge President of Nigeria but that didn&&num;8217&semi;t scale through&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; shortly after winning the presidency in 2015 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress&comma; APC&comma; things literally fell apart between the two old friends&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Galadima&comma; 75&comma; who hails from Yobe State&comma; north eastern Nigeria felt betrayed by Buhari&&num;8217&semi;s change of attitudes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Among other things&comma; Galadima who graduated from Ahmadu Bello University&comma; Zaria&comma; reckoned that Buhari&&num;8217&semi;s poor attention to education especially to the highly dis advantaged northern Nigeria was a sad reward for the supports they collectively pushed to make him defeat then incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking on Arise TV Wednesday morning&comma; Galadima&comma; yet again&comma; expressed disatisfaction over Buhari&&num;8217&semi;s scorecard&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He noted that Buhari has taken Nigeria backward 100 times from where he met it in 2015&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;From education to infrastructure and security including agriculture&comma; Galadima scored Buhari and the APC government zero&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The NNPP stalwart said&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Buhari has taken Nigeria 100 times backwards&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;One can not travel in Nigeria&period; There is high level insecurity everywhere&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Yes&comma; Buhari is not leaving Nigeria where he meant it&period; Nigeria was better than this when Buhari came in&period; Naira exchange was N157 to a dollar but now&comma; it is almost N800 to a dollar&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he lamented&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking further&comma; Galadima recounted his recent Mecca experience with President Buhari&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He disclosed that he shunned Buhari just like a normal human being would a leper&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He explained that they were both in Saudi Arabia recently for the Lesser Hajj adding that the hotel he lodged was just a few distance from where Buhari stayed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Some people suggested I should visit and say hello to him&period; I refused&period; I didn&&num;8217&semi;t go to see him because he betrayed the confidence most of us reposed in him&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Galadima stressed that Buhari has cannibalized electoral process in a manner that the country has become the butt of mockery at local and international scenes&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Buhari has left Nigeria in bad taste&period; One can not win election on the basis of credibility but on the basis of money&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he pointed out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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