A professor of political economy, Pat Utomi, has accused President Bola Tinubu of showing less concern about the dire situation Nigerians are facing.
Utomi revealed that he went to President Tinubu in 2019, at the time Muhammadu Buhari was the President of Nigeria and complained to him about the dangerous path the leadership was taking at that time and its implications for the country and its citizens.
He disclosed that rather than speak up for the people, Tinubu chose to remain silent through Buhari’s eight years in power.
However, according to Utomi, who spoke in a recent interview with Vanguard, Tinubu at that time, chose to be more strategic than concerned about the plight of Nigerians.
He made the submission while responding to a question during the interview bordering on how supporters of President Tinubu have said he is less than two years in office and that he did not cause all the problems Nigerians are ascribing to him.
In his response, Prof. Utomi said he couldn’t absolve anybody of blame because they all saw it coming but took no action, adding that the policies introduced by the current government have compounded the problems created by the previous leaders.
“I’m not into who caused or did not cause. I can say publicly that part of my departure from Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was that I went to him in 2019 and told him that President Buhari was leading us to a dangerous place and that we should speak up, we should act as his so-called party members, but he was more strategic than concerned about Nigerians.
“He kept quiet through Buhari’s starving eight years. So, I cannot absolve anybody, they all saw it coming and compounded it, and the policies that they were taking so abrasively, and unthinkingly have compounded the problem,” the Professor said.