By Onyewuchi Ojinnaka
A one time military governor of old Bendel State and former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Lt.General Jeremiah Useni (rtd) has berated the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the influence of bad advisers working in his administration constitutes a threat to good governance and democratic practice in the country.
Senator Useni who later joined politics after retirement from the army made his observations public while speaking with journalists in Jos, the Plateau State capital.
Useni posited: “As a president, Buhari does not do everything by himself; he has advisers.
“If you have advisers and they advise you properly, you will do proper thing but when you have bad advisers, you will have problems.
“What I am saying is that there are good and bad advisers. So if there is anything going wrong at all under the administration, it must be based on bad advisers and not that him, as an individual, will try to see that things are done badly.
“So, I think there is a mix up because some people do not understand what democracy is all about and only think it is all about lying to the people and not telling them the truth.
“I tell people that politics is not for people given to falsehood but sincere individuals who are desirous of helping the people and the society to solve their problems.
“Everybody tries to blame Mr President for every wrongdoing going on but he is just but one man.”
