Retrace Your Steps, Sanusi Warns Buhari

The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Mohammadu Sanusi, says President Muhammadu Buhari administration may end up like the immediate past President Jonathan’s administration if it fails to retrace its steps

on some policies. Sanusi, who was the chairman of the 15th meeting of the Joint Planning Board and National Council on Development Planning in Kano State on Wednesday, argued that the failure of the Buhari-led government to create employment opportunities for “the over 80 million youths in the
country,” made terrorism attractive to the unemployed.The monarch, who titled his speech, ‘‘Nigeria in search of new growth model,’’ said some policies of the government were bad for the economy, adding that Buhari must retrace his steps.He noted that there were times when the Federal Government tried to get it right, adding that it failed to follow up, which contributed to  the ongoing economic downturn.He said, ‘‘I will neither change nor be political by telling people what they want to hear. The truth is that there is nothing we are facing today that we did not know would happen. We made mistakes, many of them deliberate; we ignored every single warning.“If you take a brand-new car and hand it over to a driver who doesn’t have a licence to drive it and you are involved in an accident, you can’t say you are surprised, unless you are some kind of an idiot.“We should not just keep blaming the previous administration; we also made some mistakes in the current administration.“They must retrace their steps. They have to retrace those steps all the way. We should not fall into the same trap we fell the last time when the government was always right. The bottom line is that if your policy is wrong, it means you must change it and nothing will make it right as it has to be changed.“If this government continues to behave the way the last government behaved, it will end up where Jonathan ended.”
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