The Senior Special Assistant to
the President, Garba Shehu, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari did not
promise an absolute crime-free Nigeria while campaigning for the presidency in
2015.
Shehu stated this on Sunday while
reacting to criticism triggered by the death of several persons from the
herdsmen-farmers crisis and other security issues in some parts of the country.
“I think that nobody, no
politician should try to deceive Nigerians by saying that there is a country
without lawlessness,” he said during his appearance on Channels Television’s
SundayPolitics.
“Even when he campaigned – the
President, yes, committed to ridding the country of terror but he would never
have said that this country would be 100 per cent without criminality,” he
added.
Shehu, however, said that the
Federal Government is working hard to ensure the safety of the lives and
property of Nigerians in all parts of the country.
As part of efforts to find a
lasting solution to the killings, he further gave a brief on President Buhari’s
scheduled visit to Benue State on Monday, March 12, having visited Taraba …
The presidential aide recalled
that a statement was issued to the effect that the President was embarking on
the visits after he had received all the reports he had commissioned.
He added that President Buhari
believed it was time to go around and see things on the ground and make
important decisions on what to follow.
On the President’s engagement in
Benue, Shehu said: “The programme, as it stands now, is as we had it in Taraba.
There will be a meeting of stakeholders in the State House.
“The President will listen to all
the parties in the conflict and thereafter, he will deliver his own homily and,
of course, sympathies to the people over the unfortunate losses of persons and
property.”
He further faulted claims that
the President’s visit to the state is politically motivated, saying his
principal was engaging in more of acting than talking to stop the killings.
“I would have thought that if he
had intended to inject politics into it, he would have been on the plane the
morning after the incident,” Shehu said.
“But he chose to act, rather than
to talk and as you have seen yourself over this period of time, there was
intervention by law enforcement, there was intervention by NEMA and aid
agencies.”
The President’s spokesman further
took a swipe at a group of people whom he accused of leveraging the tragic
incidents to score political points.
According to him, “They are just
celebrating and exalting over all of these matters instead of coming together
so that we can solve the problems.”
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