The Presidency has insisted that the security situation
in the country is better than what the Muhammadu Buhari
administration met in 2015.
This comes in spite of the increasing rate of attacks and
killings in parts of the country, especially in the North by
insurgents and bandits among other criminals terrorising harmless
residents in the region.
As various individuals and groups continue to criticise the
Federal Government for the present situation, Mr Femi Adesina
believes it is wrong to say President Buhari has failed in terms of
security.
Adesina, who featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday
Politics, argued that people cannot use a few events to rate the
government low in terms of securing the people.
“You don’t take one, two, three events, and then you conclude
that it is all failure; you will get to some other parts of the
North and they will tell you that things are a lot better.
“Even Governor (Babagana) Zulum who is in Borno State which is
like the epicentre of the insurgency will tell you that the
situation in that state is far better than what it was in 2015,”
said Adesina who is the Special Adviser to President Buhari on
Media and Publicity.
He went further to evaluate the performance of the present
administration, saying they have done fair enough beyond what was
expected.
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The presidential aide admitted that 2020 was a very challenging
year not just for Nigeria but all countries of the work as a result
of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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According to him, it cannot be the real benchmark year to review
the promises made by the government at the start of the year.
Adesina explained that most of the promises made could not also
be actualised to the letter because from March, the country and
indeed the world, was on what he described as suspended
animation.
He, however, stressed that despite the low earnings and the fact
that the nation’s economy did not function at full capacity, a good
number of the promises were still accomplished.
“In a political situation where you have a term, as in four
years, the consequences will usually be loss of reputation, loss of
respect for that government, and eventually, it could reflect at
the polls.
“But we know that this is a government that has a reputation,
that has integrity, and what has been promised will be accomplished
and at the end of the term when the elections are held, we will see
the results again,” said the President’s spokesman.
He added, “There were lockdowns everywhere and it lasted till
like the last quarter of that year, but it is to the advantage of
this government that most of the things promised may not have been
accomplished 100 per cent but a good number of them were
accomplished.”