Nigeria More Insecure Under Buhari Than Abacha, Says Mailafia

• The former CBN deputy governor also reacted to the recent assassination attempt on Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom

A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailafia has opined that Nigeria under the current leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari is more insecure than it was during the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. 

Mailafia, while appearing on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, argued that the nation during the era of the late military head of state, Sani Abacha, was safer than the insecurity confronting Nigerians in the present administration.

“This is totally unprecedented. This is the worst time ever in the history of Nigeria. You can’t even compare with Abacha’s time; Abacha’s time was a golden era compare with what is happening.

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“Do you think Abacha would have tolerated all these? You can’t travel on these roads, killings everywhere, destructions everywhere,” Dr Mailafia queried.

The former CBN deputy governor who also reacted to the recent assassination attempt on Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, expressed grief over the fact that certain forces empower some people from a part of the country with weapons to terrorize citizens.

Mailafia however said that the people of the Middle Belt are not afraid of those who carried out the assault on their governor.

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