Angered by the speech that has received a wide range of criticism, Giwa said the President failed to touch pressing issues, such as the shooting and killing of Nigerian youths at the Lekki area of Lagos State by soldiers.

 

The pastor, in a statement to DAILY POST on Friday, said that Buhari does not want the progress of Nigeria, adding that he (Buhari) does not embrace peace but crisis.

He also said that Buhari has brought nothing but pain and suffering to the people, citing the high costs of food items and petroleum products.

“It’s now obvious that President Muhammadu Buhari is not a citizen of Nigeria,” he said.

“I urge those who brought Mr. Buhari in 2015 to beg God for forgiveness. The president and his deputy are bad products and history will judge them, thereafter.

“President Buhari didn’t speak like an elder, but rather, he decides to add insult to injury. At this juncture, Nigerians should forget that they have a president.

“I doubt president Buhari’s citizenship, I also doubt everything concerning the president. Of course I surely know that there will be light at the end of the tunnel, we can’t continue this way.

“One expects that the president would show remorse; what stops Buhari to do what Nigerians are yearning for? Buhari doesn’t want the progress of Nigeria, he doesn’t embrace peace but crisis.

“Before you came to power, a bad of rice was sold for N7,500, now, it’s been sold between 35,000 and N42,000.

“How much was a litre of petroleum before you took over? As soon as you became the president, you jacked up the prices of goods.

“Nigerians now find it difficult to eat three times a day. I am bold to say that President Buhari and his vice are bad products,” he added.

In accordance to Falana, the speech contained avoidable gaps like wherever Buhari accused the international group of jumping into hasty conclusions more than the shooting of unarmed peaceful protesters by troopers at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos Point out on Tuesday.

In accordance to Falana, the president’s act of consoling households of police customers killed during the protests was great but he should have also followed it up with consoling people of victims of police brutality.

Speaking to Punch he said, “The presidential speech contained some avoidable lacunae. For occasion, the President accused the intercontinental neighborhood of jumping into hasty conclusions with respect to the Lekki shootings.

“My fret is that the President would be humiliated at the finish of legal inquiry into the military invasion of the Lekki toll gate as the range of the unarmed protesters that were being mowed down and the circumstances of the barbaric attack by the soldiers from a specific military barrack in Victoria Island would be uncovered.

“It was good that the President consoled the family members of the police personnel who regretably shed their lives in the class of duty. Comparable presidential condolences ought to have been extended to the households of the unarmed protesters who were being brutally murdered in Ogbomoso, Ibadan, Benin, Lagos and many others. I want to think that the President was not educated that unarmed protesters were being slain in the premeditated assaults by law enforcement and military services personnel.

“However, the President reiterated the stage that the voice of the protesters had been heard loud and crystal clear and that the Federal Government is fully commited to addressing the superb demands. Especially, the President announced that the emoluments of law enforcement officers would be reviewed upwards. That is a concession of one of the crucial requires of the protesters.”