In a recent interview with DailyTrust, factional Chairman of the Borno State chapter of the PDP, Zanna Gaddama Mustapha, says the massive victory President Buhari enjoyed in the 2015 election will certainly not happen in the 2019. Read excerpts of what he said below:
“I do not think so, the Buhari Tsunami has worked, but it will not work again because the expectations of the people have not been met. The people thought that if Buhari came to power, in three months’ time, the Boko Haram would not be there and they would go back to their communities.
They expected that a bag of rice which was N8,500 would come down to N3,000, while their salaries would increase, their purchasing power would increase and they would have an easy life. That was the thinking of the people at that time, which made them come out en masse to support Buhari. But today they have seen the other side of it.
The rice that we are talking about is now N18,000. When you talk about other means of livelihood, everything has gone up without succour from the government. There is no job for them, our young men and women that have finished schools have been roaming the streets without jobs.
The WIN programme that was done by the Jonathan administration, which was judged as the best in the world, was scrapped by this government and no better replacement was put in place. When you go to the streets of Maiduguri, many people have become beggars.
When people get breakfast in Maiduguri they don’t know how to get lunch; after getting lunch they don’t know how to get their dinner. This is how our people are suffering down there. Then you think with the hunger in them they will come out and vote Buhari, because they did it the last time? I don’t think so” he said