Senator Smart Adeyemi Stays Slaying APC

After saying it is wrong for a man of God to leave the work of God to pursue a political career, referring to Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Senator Smart Adeyemi of PDP who represents Kogi South has also come for Osinbajo’s boss, Muhammadu Buhari. While speaking in an interview published on Vanguard today, Senator Smart said Buhari terrorized and oppressed people during his reign as a president and there is no way such a man should be allowed to rule again. He also stressed that Buhari only emerged as a result of people manipulating the political system in Nigeria. Every word he said is important, read to the end please. Lol. Politicians coming really hard on each other. 6 days left… His words below…


You have been consistent in your support for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan while you seem to maintain a deep seated patriotism for the North. Now, since a northerner is the candidate of the main opposition party, if truly you are patriotic to the North, why are you supporting a Southerner for the position of President?

General Muhammadu Buhari is not a candidate of the North. The fact that he emerged as a flag bearer doesn’t make him the candidate of the North. Buhari emerged as a result of the coming together of aggrieved people in the PDP who formed APC. If the North wanted to have a candidate, Buhari cannot be the candidate because the North will be looking forward to having somebody who will be a replica of the Sardauna of Sokoto. Buhari does not fit into the shoes of the Sarduana because he lacks the qualities of a leader for the northern region. Buhari emerged as a result of people who are manipulating the political system in Nigeria. People believe that if Buhari is allowed to come, they will be able to use him because of his age. By the time you have someone who is over 70, he is out of this generation, he doesn’t know what is happening. At my age, there are things I don’t know about the world that my children tell me even as a senator today not to talk of Buhari who is a father to me.


The North will not be seen to be making progress to adopt Buhari as a candidate. Are you saying that we have not been able to raise new generation of leaders after Buhari when he was a head of state? Buhari, to me, is being used by those who want him knowing fully well that age is not on his side and, perhaps, as it is being said, that his state of health is not strong enough to carry the office of president. So, they want us to experience another crisis which may come if you have a president who is not strong, a president that cannot meet his obligations. When that happens we will have a situation where the vice will become the de facto president.

That is not good for our system, that is not good for our diversity as a people. If the North is to produce a president, it will look at the 19 states and bring somebody it feels will deliver; somebody that all of us will rally round and be proud to say this is a leader and not a man with the kind of background of Buhari. Buhari’s background is not challenging enough, Buhari’s background is not a background that is good for democracy. Buhari emerged as a leader through military dictatorship. Buhari truncated the democratic government in place, he owes Nigerians apology for some of the atrocities his military government committed.

Now for you to have another military government is to remind us of that era when people were whipped on the street. Buhari’s government was draconian, it was a government that oppressed the people, it was a government that showed no human face, it was a government that messed up our tertiary institutions, traditional rulers were maltreated. Buhari government came and oppressed us to the point of death. I do not see how I can support that kind of a man who has not apologized to the Nigerian people.