Ex-lawmaker says president doesn’t read

A second republic lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed, has said President

Mohammed, in an interview with Vanguard, said he recommended books to the president because it dealt with the economic matters but he failed to read the book in 2015.

Mohammed says it's sad Buhari doesn't read like IBB or Obasanjo

A former ally to President Buhari, Mohammed said Buhari's attitude towards reading is very dangerous for a leadership position.

“I suggested the idea of a think tank to Buhari and he agreed and he put together a think tank with quite a number of formidable brains and started meeting in 2015 until I stopped coming.

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“I suggested a number of books for all of us to read and those books were procured.

“One of the books I recommended to Buhari personally, because it has to do with economic matters especially in dealing with the World Bank and the IMF group, was a book written by a Nobel prize laureate in economics, Joseph Stiglitz.

“Buhari took the book and opened it, just wrote GMB on it and that was all. Over a year later when I came I found that Buhari had not read two pages out of that book.”

"Unlike Buhari, former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida read and listen, and also go out of their way to get people to come and advise them.

“Both of them read. I am scared of a leader who does not read and who does not look for experts and I don’t believe any leader no matter how distinguished, who claims and believes that only his own people have all the knowledge in every subject matter in the world; this is a very dangerous attribute Buhari has,” he said.

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War against corruption is a fraud

Mohammed also insisted that President Buhari led administration is not sincere about its fight against corruption.

He said: “the so-called anti-graft war is a fraud meant to persecute only those in opposition who stole money.”

“You can see that while the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is pursuing those in the opposition who looted the treasury before the 2015 election, some top officials in the present government who have stolen money are either not arrested and detained or at best investigated,” he said.