Former chairman of the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Dr. Paul Unongo, has regretted spearheading President Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential campaign in 2015.
Unongo said the preference for Buhari in 2015 was not based on justification alone, but also emotion, saying that the President was a no-nonsense person and the people then felt he was the right person to steer the affairs of the country.
Speaking with journalists in Jos, the Second Republic Minister of Mines and Power said: “Some of us that went for Buhari risked our lives. Many of us are disappointed and I am too old not to speak the truth. We are disappointed with the performance we have seen by the government led by Buhari.
“He could have done better, but he didn’t do as we expected him to. History will judge that he has total support from his people; some of them took a risk. I took the risk of leading a delegation to the United States of America (USA) to plead his cause because of what he had done in the past.”
Unongo noted that the U.S Congress argued that Buhari was a religious fanatic; that he would bring trouble and he countered them.
“I addressed the Congress for General Buhari. So, what we are doing is not different from the role we played in the past,” he added.