A leading economist and academic, Prof. Pat Utomi, has described the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) as the only person whho can restore Nigeria’s hope in the current political dispensation.
Utomi, who is a founding member of the Ndigbo Lagos group, said Igbos have been branded as people who sell their votes to the highest bidder. He, therefore, urged the people of the South-East and other Nigerians who wanted the best for the country to vote wisely in order to repair the country’s damaged reputation and economy.
Utomi said this during the unveiling of a Pan-Igbo group, Igboekulie, in Lagos on Wednesday.
While fielding questions from journalists at the event, he said Buhari’s ascendancy can be likened to what happened in the United States in 1981 when the Americans were disenchanted with the Jimmy Carter administration with inflation as high as 29 per cent.
He added that it took the oldest man to run for Presidency in the United States, Ronald Reagan, to turn things around and revive the American spirit.
He said, “I think Nigerians don’t have any alternative in the person of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. I refer to him from my writings as the Buhari ascendancy. That reminds me of what happened in the US when I lived there with President Ronald Reagan.”
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