Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja and the Sokoto
State University, Prof. Nuhu O. Yaqub has said the situation of the Nigerian
nation would not change if President Muhammadu Buhari succeeds in returning for
a second term.
Prof. Yaqub, who is presently
the Dean, School of Postgraduate Studies, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja,
spoke in Awka while contributing to the keynote address by former Vice
Chancellor of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Prof. Ikenna
Onyido at the ongoing 55th Meeting of the Committee of Deans of Postgraduate
Schools in Nigerian Universities (CDPGS), holding at the Nnamdi Azikiwe
University, Awka (NAU).
Contributing to a lecture with
the theme, “The knowledge paradigm in the age of sustainable development: the
relevance of the Nigerian Postgraduate School,” Prof. Yaqub lamented the
erosion that was brought into the governance of the country by the military,
stressing that military intervention was the worst thing that had ever happened
to the country.
He said, “I am very happy that
you brought in this issue of the erosion that was brought in by the military.
The military intervention in this country has been the worst thing that has
ever happened and I am saying it, politically, economically and socially.
“Everything about Nigeria since
the military intervention up to this time and as far as I am concerned it has
not reduced because what are we having? Still generals.”
The university Don stressed
that the worst of the situation was that Nigeria had been recycling the same
military generals in civilian governance.
He said, “Secondly, we are
recycling people who have come before and had messed us up and I already
believe, I may be wrong, that at the end of the day I do not see anybody who
will defeat Muhammadu Buhari.
“If you don’t like him, am
sorry I am saying this, but there is every likelihood that he will be back and
what we are going to experience in the next four to five years will be worse
than what we are seeing now.”
He told journalists later in an
interview that, “I have seen what we have gotten in the past three to four
years, my problem is, what is the evidence that we are going to get something
qualitatively different from what we have had so far? That is my question.”
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