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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, said on Monday the cabal that hijacked President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration are like \u201cdrunken sailors\u201d who lacked the idea on how to navigate the affairs of the country.<\/p>\n

Mailafia, who stated this in a column in The PUNCH Newspaper and titled: \u201cHow to kill, skin and bury a country,\u201d said the so-called cabal has been ruling Nigeria on the basis of \u201cnepotism and exclusion\u201d and plunged the nation into needless debt and the brink of destruction.<\/p>\n

According to him, Nigeria has been moving from one tragedy to another with the North becoming a \u201cdesert wasteland of beggarliness and sheer destitution\u201d under President Buhari.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cLast week, the South and Middle Belt coalition gave an ultimatum to the Federal Government to dismantle the 1999 Constitution which they believe to be a fraud.<\/p>\n

\u201cNations can live with bad constitutions, so long as the leaders exercise restraint while governing with fairness and justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is why nobody raised those issues under Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar\u2019Adua, and Goodluck Jonathan. But we live in evil times.<\/p>\n

\u201cA cabal has cornered power to itself and is governing, not in the national interest, but on the basis of nepotism and exclusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have imported thousands of armed mercenaries from neigbhouring countries and have allowed them to wreak havoc on a staggering scale. They have killed our people, raped our women, and desecrated our ancestral homelands.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany believe that the current incumbent of our high magistracy is suffering from advanced dementia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cabal has used the opportunity to commit grand larceny with the wantonness of drunken sailors, borrowing billions of dollars to build railroads and refineries in neighbouring countries, for which future generations will have to pay through their noses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are today the third most terrorised country after Afghanistan and Somalia. Hunger and despair stalk the land.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn creating Boko Haram, Fulani militias, and the bandits, our Arewa elites aimed to create a hegemonic system of rule anchored on fear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have unleashed a Frankenstein\u2019s monster that now threatens to devour us all. The Arewa of my birth, with its green and pleasant air, has become a God-forsaken desert wasteland of beggarliness and sheer destitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, said on Monday the cabal that hijacked President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration are like \u201cdrunken sailors\u201d who lacked the idea on how to navigate the affairs of the country. 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