A former Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu, has lamented that some revisionist characters are focused on delegitimising former President Muhammadu Buhari’s legacies.
Sheu stated this in a statement issued on Wednesday marking 100 days after Buhari left office after completing two terms of four years each as President of Nigeria.
The former spokesperson noted that the former President chose to stay in Daura to be far away from Abuja in order not to distract the new APC administration.
He noted that in the eight years he led the country, Buhari had taken many decisions, saying one or two might have been wrong, but no one, not even critics, could question his intentions when those decisions were taken.
Sheu pointed out that there has not been a single area that has not been touched by the Buhari government, with massive, positive changes in the eight years he held fort.
He said: “In the normative functions of our governments, an administration takes four to five major decisions in four years and they rush to the public square to celebrate themselves. Looking at the records he left, the Buhari government has taken hundreds of major decisions in the eight years it was in office, and yet you hear nothing but criticism upon criticism.”
“No one should be angry at some revisionist characters whose only focus is the delegitimisation of significant Buhari legacies.
“They refuse to acknowledge that bomb explosions, suicide bomb incidents and all that stopped when President Buhari stepped in.
“The National Security office was ruthless in denying End User Certificates (EUCs) to those bringing in Urea fertilizer. They impounded shipments of fertilizer for over 5 years to freeze the bomb-making industry controlled by terrorists thereby helping to bring these atrocities to a standstill.
“The so-called critics don’t want to acknowledge the great job done by the nation’s intelligence agencies in diminishing the IPOB, its affiliates and other secessionist movements.
“The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) single-handedly worked with our neighbors, especially Niger Republic in bringing down illegal small arms and light weapons importation into Nigerian territory by 78%.
“This agency carried out extensive work on the blocking of the insurgent Cameroonian Ambazonian network’s infiltration into Nigeria. Our security and intelligence operatives were virtually awake 24/7 and the President was well aware at all times on the evolving situations.”
Sheu added that the critics don’t want to acknowledge that maritime security experienced such a turn around when Admiral Gambo came on board.
He noted that in less than one year, the International Maritime Bureau was singing the Nigerian Navy’s praises for normalizing the dire security situation in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG)
He said: “Their reports clearly stated that for the first time in 27 years, the GoG had become the safest maritime environment. There has not been a single area that had not been touched by the Buhari government.
“We have seen massive positive changes in the last eight years but as they say, the one who is pretending to be asleep is harder to wake up than the one who is actually sleeping.
“Bullies who attacked governments and “something dropped” will continue to antagonize Buhari borne of anger from lost opportunities. A certain Buhari “critic” who served a Military Governor in one of the Northern States, even his underwear was bought from government coffers.”