Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media
and Publicity, Femi Adesina, stated this while giving reasons on Buhari’s delay
in visiting troubled states.
In a video shared on the
presidential twitter handle, Adesina said Buhari during the crisis sent
delegations to the different states to access the situations and after
receiving their reports and studying it, he decided to visit.
According to Adesina, “When those
clashes began in January and some people were clamoring for the president to
visit, our position as government was that the president will visit at the
proper time. And what was the president waiting for?
“He had commissioned people to
visit and express his condolences to people who lost loved ones and he has sent
security agencies. He needed to receive reports from them.
“Having received those reports
and scrupulously studied them, the time to visit has now come and that is why
he has begun the series of visits that will take him to those five state. The
lessons for us as Nigerians are that we need to understand our leaders.
“If they don’t respond the way we
expect them to do at time, it does not mean they are insensitive. It does not
mean that they do not care for the people. President Buhari is a methodical and
systematic person.
“If the president had wanted to
play politics with those tragedies, like he has told me privately and like I
have said in different interviews, he would have rushed into the place, said a
few correct things and people would have hailed him and what would it have
amounted to, mere window dressing. But rather, he wants enduring solutions.”
Buhari visited Taraba on Monday
and is expected to visit other states hit by Boko Haram attacks and
farmers-herdsmen clashes, including Benue, Yobe and Rivers states.
Watch video here….
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everydayIn this video, Special Adviser to President @MBuhari on Media and Publicity, @FemAdesina, speaks on the President's planned visit to 5 States: Taraba (yesterday), Benue, Yobe, Zamfara and Rivers. #AsoVillaWeekly pic.twitter.com/lHGgsB5FDZ— Presidency Nigeria (@NGRPresident) March 6, 2018
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