President Muhammadu Buhari blasts those who referred to him as "Baba Go Slow".

President Muhammad'Muhammadu Buhari blasted some group of elites who allowed Nigeria to be mismanaged for 16years.

He said this during a meeting with the
Nigerian community in the United States of
America on the margins of the 73rd United
Nations General Assembly in New York.

The President who hailed ‘ordinary Nigerians’
who stood by him blamed the elite that
allowed Nigeria to be mismanaged for 16
years of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
administration without as much as raising a
voice in consternation.

“They didn’t say a word.
“Under the PTF (Petroleum Trust Fund, of
which he was Chairman), we did roads from
Lagos to Abuja, to Onitsha, to Port Harcourt.

Since then, the roads were not done, between
1999 and 2015, yet the elite did not say a
word,” Buhari noted in a statement signed on
Friday by his special adviser on Media and
Publicity, Femi Adesina.

The President also took a swipe at those who
referred to him as ‘Baba Go Slow.’

He further blamed elites who he said had
remained silent since 1983 when corrupt
politicians that were jailed by his
administration were later set free after he
was put in detention.

“I was called Baba Go Slow. Those who were
going fast, where did they get to?
“In 1983, military officers gathered and made
me Head of State. I packed the politicians
into jail, told them they were guilty until they
could prove their innocence.

“We seized what they had looted, but after I
myself was put in detention, the politicians
were given back what they had looted. How
many elites complained about that?

“Three times I contested elections; three
times I went to court after the elections were
rigged against me. No justice, but I said ‘God
dey.’