Buhari: Agbakoba says he is sleeping on duty

Lagos based lawyer and activist, Olisa Agabakoba,  on Sunday delivered a damning verdict on the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari,

Punch reports that the lawyer who spoke to reporters in Lagos described the President’s cabinet as ‘incompetent’  while Buhari himself  is “sleeping on the job.”

“Government’s work is misunderstood even by the President. He doesn’t understand the nature of how to run a government,” Agbakoba told reporters in  Lagos.

He particularly cited Geoffrey Onyeama, a lawyer, appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Kayode Fayemi, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development as two examples of President Buhari’s cabinet members not suited for the position they were appointed into.

“He (Buhari) needs to sack his entire cabinet because they have failed,” Agbakoba said.

According to him, the high recurrent expenditure in the nation’s budget shows that the President is bereft of ideas of how to run the country.

“The current budget is about N8tn; 70 per cent is for recurrent expenditure, that means salaries.

“Now, only three million people in Nigeria, working with the Federal Government, ‘chop’ all that money to the exclusion of the 180 million people. So, where’s the fairness? Three million people and 70 per cent, and the remainder 30 per cent for 180 million people.

The lawyer added that the state governors are not better.

“Governor Ambode of Lagos State says that he runs either the third or fifth largest economy in Africa, but you are all in Lagos. This is a broken city, it is a completely broken city and in the index of the harshest cities to live in the world, Lagos is third from the last,” Agbakoba said.

“Ambode is fixing federal roads when Lagos State roads are deplorable.

“Okorocha is erecting statues of all kinds of people when Imo State owes pensioners.

“Wike is using Rivers State money to buy SUVs for members of the National Assembly.”