When You See Presidential Candidates Shedding Tears, Run, Shehu Sanni Advises Electorates

Former Senator, Shehu Sanni has advised electorates to run next time they see Presidential candidates shedding tears with a handkerchief during campaigns.

The lawmaker who has been a critic of the ruling government after leaving the 8th Assembly is not specifying who he is referring to.

President Muhammdu Buhari and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Atiku Abubakar, had at one time cried over different situations in the country.

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Sani has also faulted the approval by the Senate to President Buhari in securing foreign loans of 22.7 billion dollars for Nigeria. The lawmaker, who was in charge of foreign debt in the last Assembly, said the administration has finally mortgaged the future of the nation and further plunged it into debts that cannot be repaid in half a century.

“It is going to mortgage the future of our children. It is unfortunate that Nigeria has exhibited the London and Paris club, and also drag itself into the Washington and Beijing club. And we are very likely to remain there for a very long time. The debt profile of Nigeria is unsustainable. Most of the reasons why we are going to borrow money are not really tenable.

“We cannot repay this debt so easily, and what I know very well is that if this debt was approved under Jonathan, President Buhari and APC could have been in the forefront of protesting against it.”

“It is unfortunate that the very people who have raised issues on our national debt when they were in opposition or in Labour, today they have found themselves to be leaders in terms of promoting and also piling up debts for Nigeria. If we are not careful, the whole country will be under the control and mortgage web of those foreign creditors’ institutions”.

Sani also described the foreign debt as slavery.

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“And we have simply worked ourselves into it under Buhari,” stressing, “as far as I am concerned, we supposed not to have reached this very level of poverty in the country if the past debt profile was well managed.”

Speaking further, he said that debt should only be for critical infrastructure that would promote the development and drive growth in the country.

“But, how can Buhari’s government that says it is netting over one billion naira every day through the closure of borders, and how can the government that says it has saved money as a result of subsidies and other critical measures, now go to borrow billions of dollars?”

“And, if you look at the revenue profile of Nigeria today, from what accrues to the country, we will continue to service this debt for over half a century. And I don’t think that will go well for the nation”.

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