We have allowed urban bandits to take over leadership – El-Rufai
Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has declared that Nigeria is in distress because bandits have been allowed to assume leadership roles.
El-Rufai attributes Nigeria’s predicament to a recurring error: consistently electing the least suitable individuals into positions of power. He made these remarks on Saturday in Abuja while delivering a goodwill message at a public lecture titled, ‘Weaponization of poverty as a means of underdevelopment: A case study of Nigeria’.
EL-Rufai said, “Nigeria is in its biggest trouble since 1914, and that is why we are together working and conspiring to build a coalition to take Nigeria back on track because it is off track.
“It has turned to this level because we have allowed bandits, not the ones in the bushes, but the ones in the urban area, called the urban bandits, to take over leadership.
“I believe that the problem that we have is that we just get incompetent people, and we hand over leadership to them. Most of them don’t really know what to do. They just know how to grab power but don’t know what to do with it.”
