Buhari will leave Nigeria safer than he met it, says Adesina

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina says President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Nigeria a safer country than he met it when he took over in 2015.

Adesina was speaking while appearing on Channels TV Programme Sunday Politics.

Adesina who listed the president’s achievements, said the country was approaching collapse before Buhari came into power.

“No doubt about it. He would leave a safer country. When he came in 2015, you could not be sure Nigeria would exist in the next one month. As of 2015, what was happening was that nobody could confidently say that Nigeria would be on the map in the following next week, month or year. But we saw that he came and took the battle to the insurgency,” Adesina said.

“When he came, the insurgency was the main thing and he took the battle to them. Then, it became hydra-headed – banditry, kidnapping for ransom, cultism, and separatist agitations joined. How many challenges can one administration really confront? That’s the issue with the Buhari administration. From day one till now, it was from one challenge to the other.”

“But we also see some calm in the country now. You can’t compare what we have today with what we had six months ago or one year ago. Six months is enough time to finish off what is on the ground,” he said.

He added that the country’s security situation is a continuous one and expects the next government to continue from where President Buhari would stop.

“Security would always be a continuum,” he said, noting that even the world’s superpowers are battling one issue or the other.

“You would never get to a time you would sit back and say ‘We are all sound, safe and secure, no need to be alert again’. No, you would never get to that point,” Adesina added.