Former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung, has described the present set of state governors as disasters who’ve despatched Nigeria “next to hell.”

This used to be as Dalung disclosed that state governors underneath the management of the past due former President Muhammadu Buhari carried out poorly.

He made the statement throughout an interview on Trust TV, the place he famous that the southern a part of Nigeria has been in a position to broaden along the desires and imaginative and prescient in their founding fathers.

According to Dalung: “Southern Nigeria has been in a position to broaden along the desires and imaginative and prescient in their founding fathers. Free schooling, which used to be offered by means of Awolowo, nonetheless exists within the Southwest. The financial insurance policies initiated by means of Azikiwe within the Southeast are nonetheless being practiced.

“The Southeast has disasters just like the North; the variation is that the commercial base of the Southeast and the actions of the folks mark the variations.

“If you move to the South-South, it’s the similar factor. The Southwest has been exemplary as a result of they held onto the visions in their founding fathers.

“For the North, Sardauna left an excellent legacy. Unfortunately, on this explicit republic, the Fourth Republic, we’ve handiest had a couple of governors who’ve lived throughout the context of our founding fathers.

“The first set of governors we had underneath this Republic, only some of them failed; the bulk did smartly. Makarfi in Kaduna, his transformation of Kaduna State used to be large.

“Yar’Adua in Katsina did excellently, and you are taking different governors, however some states in that set of governance carried out poorly.

“Then it worsened when the second one set got here on board in 2007; there have been only a few who nonetheless held onto this. We have Sule Lamido, Shema, and a couple of others who additionally did really well.

“The third set was a disaster from 2015; they performed too poorly. I’m an active participant in the creation of the tsunami that brought them. Then this set that we have now, it has sent us next to hell.”