Charles Chukwuma Soludo says that Buhari's steadfast 12year struggle to become president is a sign of man with plans to deliver good governance.
Charles Soludo
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Charles Chukwuma Soludo has reiterated his confidence that President Buhari can deliver the desired change that Nigerians needs to develop.
Soludo, who however faulted the implementation of the Treasury Single Account by the Federal Government spoke in Lagos at the third anniversary lecture of RealNews magazine, titled: “Can a New Buharinomics Save Nigeria?”
He said: “First, I supported President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) over Jonathan not because I was convinced about the credibility of the APC manifesto (and I said so in my article in January this year) but for three reasons. I was convinced that the last economic team was bankrupting the economy and had no clue as to how to fix it.
“Second, PMB is the first president of Nigeria under a democracy to have seriously desired the job and struggled for it for over 12 years. To me therefore, he must have a few points to prove, and I was willing to bet on a man who purposefully wanted the job than otherwise.
“Third, I was convinced that it would be in the enlightened self-interest of the APC, once in power, to do their utmost to keep power by delivering on the economy unlike the PDP which had taken power for granted. I am still confident that PMB can deliver change (although as I had indicated in my article in January, I didn’t believe that any of the two parties could deliver on their manifesto) but he and his team now need to run at the speed of a 1000 km per hour."
Soludo added that the former President Goodluck Jonathan had the worst economic management team in history because he left Nigeria with an unprecedented rate of debt accumulation.