Nigeria A Failed Nation Under APC, Says Ex Buhari Minister

Solomon Dalung, the immediate past minister of sports, says the plethora of challenges and crisis that bedevil Nigeria under the All Progressives (APC) are unprecedented in the history of the country.

Dalung said this in an interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

He said the APC government has failed Nigerians as it has reneged on the promises it made to them.

Dalung bemoaned the insecurity in the north, adding that it has now got to a point where people fast and pray for days before embarking on a journey.

He also disclosed that farmers had to pay gunmen before going to the farm.

“In the north, if you are a Muslim and you want to travel, you must pray, fast for days before embarking on the journey. If you are Christian and you want to travel, you must fast and pray for days before you travel,” she said.

“Even if the journey is successful, you will still go to the hospital because of high blood pressure arising from fear during the journey. We have never experienced this kind of situation. Imagine in the north, before you go to your farm, you will have to pay gunmen to allow you farm. If you want to harvest your farm produced, you will still have to pay gunmen before they allow you to harvest.

He said it was his responsibility to speak out concerning the dispiriting state of the nation, noting that he could not keep quiet in the face of failure and incompetence.

“So how can there be farming in the North? We have never experienced this kind of situation. It is our APC government, but this government has not addressed the needs of Nigerians. It is our government, but if we are not doing the correct thing, it is our responsibility to speak out because we spoke against some people in the past and we need to speak to ourselves too.”

He said the failure of the APC government is so glaring that “everybody knows”.

“You know me and everybody in Nigeria knows me. Whether I am still a minister, even if I am the president, whatever I see that is not right, I must speak out, not because of myself, but in the interest of the generality of the people,” he said.

“If for example, Solomon Dalung collapses and die today, without speaking out against what is happening today, don’t you think God will question me for abusing Jonathan and for not speaking out on our failure? That is what I am afraid of, not anybody.

“Our party, the APC is like a dying party because, as I am talking to you right now, they have dissolved the party completely, it has no members, even the President is not a member”.