Former Governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, has in an interview with LEADERSHIP, said there are certain things going on in the country which ordinary Nigerians will not understand.
He said he never knew how bad Nigeria is, until he served in the military and later became a civilian governor and a member of the National Assembly.
He also alleged that foreign powers seem to be taking advantage of the cluelessness of the Buhari government, to destroy the future of the country.
He said, “I am not advocating for military rule, but to me, having been in the two systems, I think Nigeria was better off during the military, and I want anybody to challenge my position. If Jesus doesn’t come back soon, I don’t know what will become of Nigeria.
“My experience as a military and civilian governor, and even going to the National Assembly has been an eye-opener. All I can say is, Jesus should have mercy on us; we have sinned; all of us, no exception.
"I don’t know the human beings that will be able to repair Nigeria, except God himself, in his infinite mercy to intervene in our present situation. If you imagine the foreign loans this administration has taken, you will conclude that IMF and World Bank are wicked.
"They are wicked to generations yet unborn in Nigeria. Unfortunately, these approvals started while I was in the Senate; it was one of the reasons I said I was not going back to the Senate. May God just help Nigeria.
“Sincerely I think the earlier Jesus comes, the better for us; let’s just go home. Let this world’s matters be closed once and for all. The Bible says there are some things we will only understand when we get there, otherwise there are so many questions to ask. Man’s heart is truly desperately wicked.”
Like Jang, a former Chief Security Officer (COS) to late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, similarly accused foreign powers of working against the country saying Abacha was put to the sword because he refused to be a puppet.
He said, "There were threats to Nigeria’s survival, threat to President Abacha’s survival. And the government, for pegging Naira at N82 and pegging it at N22 officially, there was a fight from the World Bank, G7, IMF."
"With all sense of humility, I don’t think there is anyone among the past leaders that could absorb that, knowing well that at any moment anything could have happened, but he did it on behalf of Nigeria and Naira remained stable at the expense of his life; there was a threat, visibly open (to Abacha’s life)," he added.