Rights Group Scores Buhari’s Administration F9 in All Sectors of Governance

A civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, said outgoing Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, scored a woeful F9 in all sectors of governance from economy to insecurity, unemployment, education, infrastructure, oil and gas, electricity, and every other sector.

HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said it was lamentable and extremely embarrassing that Buhari promised Nigerians change in 2015 but has only succeeded in changing the country for the worse; the kind of change Nigerians will never forget in a hurry and one that will take decades to recover from.

In its scorecard of President Buhari who hands over to the President-elect, Bola Tinubu on May 29, HURIWA observed that after eight full years in office, Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) deceived Nigerians into power and only enriched themselves and the few cronies and bootlickers around them with taxpayers’ funds and the people’s commonwealth and resources.

Recall that the outgoing president, who is also a former military Head of State, had during his campaign in 2015 vowed to combat endemic corruption in the country.

HURIWA however claimed that under Buhari’s watch, Nigeria fell from 154 out of 180 countries and territories in the latest ranking of the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index released by Transparency

International in January 2023.

“Also, according to the data by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria’s inflation rate in May 2015 when Buhari took over leadership was 9.0 per cent. But Nigeria’s inflation rate jumped to a 17-year high of 22.04 per cent in April 2023, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

“Naira to dollar in May 2015 was less than N200 but today it has gone as high as N800 at the parallel market.