Utomi Blasts Buhari, Other Politicians, Calls Them Terrible Mistake

• Nigeria’s politics is irritating because it’s not interested in solving the challenges of ordinary citizens.

Former presidential aspirant Patrick Utomi says Nigeria is not heading towards the right direction, noting that the country is now in a perpetual quandary and crisis.

Utomi issued the dispiriting and damning verdict when he spoke at the 26th Annual Pre-Ramadan Lecture held in Lagos.

In a sweeping generalisation that includes President Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Tinubu, and other political figures across various party lines, Utomi said Nigerian politicians are unpleasant mistake for Nigerians.

According to him, Nigeria’s politics is irritating because it’s not interested in solving the challenges of ordinary citizens.

Utomi said, “The calibre of people who became politicians in Nigeria is a terrible mistake for our country. People have travelled from citizenship to idiocy.”

Recall that Renowned northern Nigeria politician, Tanko Yakasai, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as an indolent, empty-headed depraved character who’s only interested in the perks of presidency and not the rigorous works of nation building that come with occupying such lofty position.

Yakasai, who spoke during an interview with Sunday Tribune, lampooned Buhari, saying he only presented himself for election “to have power and make money.”

As if on cue, Utomi is now describing the country’s politicians as a terrible mistake for the citizens.

A politician himself, the economics professor, said Nigeria’s aversion and resentment for critical thinking, intellectual discourse and compelling arguments has aggravated the predicament of the country.

“Nigeria is travelling in the wrong direction. This is really the problem. The gap between us and them is pushed in this emotional pulse,” Mr Utomi was quoted to have said by Punch.

“We seem to stumble from crisis to crisis. In Nigeria, everything you say that seems to be structured, people dismiss it. They say, ‘Na grammar we go chop?’

“They forgot that every action starts from a theory. But this anti-intellectual disposition, not thinking, make us create mountains in a small manhole and put our country in a state of permanent crisis.

“We seem unable to have a rational conversation. Nigeria politics irritates, annoys me because it is not dealing with issues people are dealing with.”

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