Afro-beat singer, Seun Kuti has lamented how President Muhammadu Buhari care-less about engaging the people who voted him into office.
Addressing newsmen during the re-launch of his father, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti‘s political party, Movement of the People, Seun said to Buhari, Nigerians do not deserve dialogue.
“How many town hall meetings has Buhari held with the people he’s governing since in his six years in office?” Seun queried.
“He has not held any because to him, we are not worthy of dialogue. And this is how oppressors operate -when they continue to dehumanise, they start to treat you like animals,” he stated.
While maintaining that Buhari cannot save Nigeria from most of the problems she has since been battling, Seun revealed that his motive of reviving Fela’s Movement of the People is to involve the Nigerian citizenry in governance.
His words: “It is important that we realise that the president of Nigeria cannot save Nigeria, the governors in Nigeria cannot save Nigeria. Only the people of Nigeria can save Nigeria.
“Any serious political party must engage the people with true upliftment. By so doing, every Nigerian can show his or her full potential in Nigeria without having to be traded off like a slave to go and work for another man. That party has to be one that will engage in every political position that is available from local governments, to the wards, to the executive chairmen, to the state assemblies.
“So for us, we want to register in the minds of the people that this is the first party that will truly mold the people. We are not trying to do anything for the people. Everything we are going to do is with the people because that is where true development comes from, and that’s where national development starts.
“This is a different political party; this one is the movement that will represent the people of Nigeria, and that is why it is called the movement of the people. I think my dad, being the genius that he is 30 years ago. I am happy that today, that dream has been reunited in Lagos Nigeria.”
