Banker and royal blood, Muhammadu Sanusi II has berated former President Muhammadu Buhari for running the economy aground through excessive borrowing and profligacy.
He said the former president presided over a government which spurning the advice of experts and surrounded himself with sycophants in the eight years of his administration.
The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, who stated this in a video message to Nigerians, said sycophants exploited the system, adding that an “inexperienced boy” owned a jet under the past administration.
He said borrowing had crippled Nigeria’s economy, urging the citizens to be patient with the current administration led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Sanusi stated that some people wrote to him demanding that he speaks on the current situation in the country. He, however, said this is not the right time for him to speak on the difficulties Nigerians are experiencing.
He noted that Nigeria led a false life in the last eight years, further disclosing that the Government borrowed from within and without and about N30 trillion was borrowed from CBN.
The former Emir said that all the revenue the country generated in the last few years couldn’t service debt and the debt service exceeded 100 percent.
He further disclosed that the Government borrowed to service debts and no country can grow that way. Time will come when one cannot borrow any more. Additionally there will be nothing to pay debts, he added.
“Those writing, demanding that we speak on the current situation in the country; this is not the right time for me to speak. It was like a driver on the road driving recklessly despite a wise counsel telling him of a crater ahead. What will you tell after plunging the car into the hole?
“People refused to listen to us then. We will only now advise them to be patient. I will never say Tinubu has pushed Nigeria into difficulty. I am not saying he is flawless or flawed. We will speak when he goes astray. The government can’t pay subsidies since it doesn’t have the means.
“If they add tax, we have to pay since borrowing is impossible. If the CBN printed more naira, the dollar would jack up to N1,500. We must suffer. When I was the CBN governor it was N150. Today it’s somewhere around N900.
“They treated the economy the way they wanted and refused to listen to experts. In the last eight years only sycophancy succeeded. The sycophants bought dollars at N400 and sold N540. An inexperienced boy who had never worked anywhere owns a private jet”, Sanusi said.