Garba Shehu, media aide to the former President, Muhammadu
Buhari has revealed that his principal has been busy with farming activities.
In a statement issued on Thursday to mark Buhari’s 100 days
out of office, Garba Shehu noted that the former president’s decision to leave
the nation’s capital for Daura in Katsina State was to allow President Bola
Tinubu’s administration to function undistracted.
He said, “This week, President Muhammadu Buhari clocked 100
days away from office after completing two terms of four years each as
President of Nigeria.
“He chose to stay in Daura to be far away from Abuja in order not to distract the new APC administration and in the hope also that the distance will make it possible for him to have a good rest and to care for his farm which had not received as much attention as it needed while he was away.
“He goes to the farm four days of the week and is upbeat
about how well the crops and his animals are now doing. He gets a good measure
of rest but the visits have not abated.”
Mr Shehu stated that despite the removal of fuel subsidy
which crippled transportation due to high cost of fuel, the former president
has continued to receive visitors from across the country.
He identified some of the visitors to include party
faithful, grassroots groups, farmers, artisans, artists, praise singers, nurses
and doctors, religious leaders, community leaders and several other
professionals.
“To manage the numbers, he has a weekly program drawn for
him as they did while he was in the Villa. Visitors are scheduled on the
program but there are so many people who just start their motor bikes and cars
to head out to Daura to him in the belief that he has the time to receive all
visitors.
“Not left out are those who benefited from the
administration, one way or another. The other day, he was musing the decision
to remove fuel subsidy by the Tinubu administration, saying he had hoped that
it would lessen the pressure on him by constraining the large number of people
who pick up their transport and head to Daura to see him from all parts of the
country, but that he had noted that instead of they coming one by one, his
friends, including the poor and the marginalized now group themselves, share
costs to hire buses to come to see and talk to him”, the statement added.
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Mal garba shehu te h9m to come back if he's not far. Let h9m come and reinstate subsidy. Nigerians are dying of hunger
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