Nigerian author and public commentator, Reno Omokri has accused former President Muhammadu Buhari of destroying Nigeria’s economy from 2015 to 2023.
He said Buhari ran a criminal enterprise instead of a government, during his eight years in office, which is the reason Nigeria’s debt had almost doubled and hardship worsened.
Taking to his Twitter (X) aacount on Monday morning, Omokri said Tinubu is trying to restore the economy that the immediate past president destroyed.
The former presidential aide to ex-President, Good luck Jonathan, alleged that Buhari lied about the foreign reserves. He also said if Jonathan did half of what Buhari did, he would have jailed him.
Omokri said; “Buhari Destroyed The Economy. Tinubu Is Trying to Restore It. That’s just the honest truth. Even our oil sales are useless to us now, because Buhari sold them in advance and pocketed the money.
“This is because he borrowed more than all past governments combined, until our debt service to revenue ratio was so high that even China stopped lending us money.
“The exchange rate was being subsidised with $1.5 billion every month. What you saw then was not Naira’s actual value.
“Buhari lied to you about our foreign reserve position. Those funds had been used to guarantee loans and purchases. Long and short of it all is that Buhari would have jailed President Jonathan if Dr Jonathan had done half of what Buhari did.
“Buhari did not run a government. He ran a criminal enterprise that turned his former recharge card selling nephew into an overnight private jet flying multi-billionaire.
“We, in the opposition know this. But some of us are playing politics with it because they lost the 2023 election, and as far as they are concerned, if they did not win, Nigeria must collapse.”
