Ahead of the May 29 Presidential Inauguration, former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George has said that he has forgiven President-elect, Bola Tinubu.
Chief George also said that as someone who has been trained by the country, he would always give back to it even if called to work in Tinubu’s administration.
The PDP chieftain said this in a recent chat with journalists at his Ikoyi office.
Reviewing the outgoing Buhari’s administration, he berated it for failing to provide security which was its core responsibility.
He asserted that in such regard, the President’s administration qualifies to be called a failure.
He said: “My personal assessment is that he failed, not completely in every sector, but if you do an examination and say you must have a minimum of 33 per cent, then you can go to the next class, but they did not attain that 33 per cent. I can give them maybe about five per cent, even the five per cent requires a lot of retrospection. The most important thing you must guarantee to your people, as a government, is security of lives and property, who is safe now?
“So it is very very disheartening and heartbreaking that he failed in his number one job, which is to guarantee security of lives and property. You know when he was coming in, oga (Buhari) was telling us, I would fight corruption, I will secure the lives and properties of the people, I will do this, I will do that, all kinds of promises.
“So let’s put those promises now into his departure, because that’s what will be written on the pages of history. Whatever a leader does during his time, it is on the pages of history.”
On whether he would work with Tinubu if called upon, he replied: “There is nothing personal, this country trained me and I have to give back.”
He added, “I have forgiven him, but you cannot forget.”
Recall Chief George was one of the popular traducers of Tinubu’s ambition for the presidency.
The PDP leader had even avowed to relocate to a foreign country, specifically Togo, if Tinubu won the presidential election.