Femi Adesina, who served as the Special Adviser on Media to
ex-president, Mohammadu Buhari, has said his principal actually felt some
things the administration did, could have been done better.
Adesina spoke in Osogbo on Wednesday at a programme tagged
Media Dialogue with Femi Adesina organised by the Association of Veteran
Journalists in Osun State.
The ex-presidential spokesperson said before Buhari left
office, he had a two-hour chat with him, during which he asked all manners of
questions.
According to him, during the interview session, he asked his principal what his regrets were, and Buhari expressed regret that certain things should have probably been done in another way.
Although Adesina did not state Buhari’s regret, he however
said “There is no living human being that will not regret certain things. It is
one of the questions I asked the president.
“Before we left office, I sat with him for about 2 hours and
I asked him every question under the sun and when we finished, he asked what I
gave to Chief of Protocol that he gave so long a time with him. There was no
question I didn’t ask him. There were things he (Buhari) felt could have been
done better.”
Defending some of the actions taken by the administration,
Adesina, who said naira redesign policy, though exposed Nigerians to hardship
was not totality a bad policy as it enabled the country to have reduction in
crime, especially kidnapping and curbed manipulation in the 2023 polls.
He further said Buhari served the country diligently, but
added that whatever inadequacies noticed in the manner his principal led the
nation, could not be solely blamed on him.
“The policy (naira redesign) brought hardship to Nigerians.
I had N20,000 which I stretched for almost two weeks. There was a day I had a full
house and we wanted to cook breakfast but midway, the gas finished.
“When they came to tell me that the gas has finished, I
didn’t know what to do because to fill that big cylinder, I needed N40,000 but
I didn’t have it. I was special adviser to the president but I didn’t have the
cash. One boy living with me had to bail me out to fill that gas which I
refunded.
“So, it was everybody that bore that brunt. You will recall
that even during that time, there was no kidnapping. I remember some people
went to kidnap an APC chairman or is it secretary in Kano. After holding him
for three days and nobody was calling to ask how much they will collect because
there was no cash, they just slapped him three times and told him to go.
“Even kidnappers were out of business because there was no
naira and do you know that we have a cleaner election because of that policy?
“Nine serving governors couldn’t go to the Senate. They
contested but lost. Have you ever seen a governor who will contest an election
and will not win? But because there was no money to spread around, they
couldn’t win. The policy was not bad in its entirety. There were issues with it
but it was not bad in its entirety,” Adesina concluded.
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