Dr Obadiah Mailafia, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has said that Nigeria is more insecure under President Muhammadu Buhari than it was when General Sani Abacha was in power.<\/p>\n
Making the assertion as a guest on Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily, on Wednesday, he said;<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is totally unprecedented. This is the worst time ever in the history of Nigeria. You can\u2019t even compare with Abacha\u2019s time; Abacha\u2019s time was a golden era compare with what is happening.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you think Abacha would have tolerated all these? You can\u2019t travel on these roads, killings everywhere, destructions everywhere.”<\/p>\n
Reacting to the attack on Governor Samuel Ortom last weekend, Mailafia expressed grief over the fact that certain forces empower some people from a part of the country with weapons to terrorize citizens.<\/p>\n
He averred that the people of the Middle Belt are not afraid of those who carried out the assault on their governor.<\/p>\n
He said;<\/p>\n
\u201cThis attempt on the life of an executive governor and incumbent of a state is an attempted attack on the entire people of the state. Those who are trying to do this wicked thing need to understand the implication of what they are trying to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the governor of a state cannot feel safe to go to his farm, how will the ordinary Benue people feel going to their farms? This is a very bad precedence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe circumstances in Borno are very different. Borno is a war zone, we\u2019ve been living with these evil people for a while but what happened in Benue is totally different and diabolical. We don\u2019t know what they are trying to do but this could affect the whole country.<\/p>\n