Why Tinubu is a better person than Buhari — Galadima

Former National Secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change, CPC, Buba Galadima, has expressed his preference for President Bola Tinubu, saying the incumbent is better than his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari.

Galadima, now a chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, voiced this in interview with Punchng in which he censured Buhari, saying: “Buhari was the greatest fraud because he managed to conceal his true intentions for 15 years. No Nigerian could predict what he would do once he became president. We didn’t know his true colours.

“For years, Buhari preached that he was for the masses—the talakawas—without realising he was actually the saviour of the bourgeois. Isn’t that enough of a fraud?”

The 77-year-old, however, has good things to say about Tinubu, while imputing wickedness to the ex-President.

His words: “You know some of us claim that we brought Buhari into politics. Everybody has got his own version of his contribution to bringing Buhari into politics. But there is one thing that is not disputable — nobody remained as steadfast and unwavering as some of us did with Buhari for 13 years. Despite all that, when he got into government, the likes of El-Rufai kicked us out of that government because they are sycophants. Despite calling Buhari several names, they kicked us out.

“My daughter worked in the Villa for four good years without getting a salary. She was not paid for four years. Now, Tinubu, who is a Yoruba man from Lagos, came, and my daughters called him with my phone. They told him the country is hard, that they had finished school and there was no job. He gave one of them a job. This was misinterpreted to mean I am working for Tinubu. Nigeria doesn’t belong to Tinubu alone; it belongs to all of us, and my children have a stake, and they can take any job. It is not a political appointment. In comparison to Buhari, who is a better man? Is it Buhari, who denied my daughter four years of salaries, or Tinubu, with whom we have political differences? Who is my friend between them?”