Herdsmen killings: Presidency speaks on Buhari delayed visit to troubled states (VIDEO)

The Presidency has said if President Muhammadu Buhari had rushed to troubled states immediately after crisis, it would amount to what it tagged “mere window dressing.”

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.

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In 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