A former Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has acknowledged that his principal’s leadership was slow.
Shehu, however, said that Buhari’s slowness was due to the
former President’s transformation from a former military ruler to a committed
democrat who chose to follow due process.
According to him, while most Nigerians were impatient and
wanted quick fixes, Buhari could not be bent as he chose to abide by democratic
norms.
Shehu stated this during an interview on Arise News on
Tuesday night, “Was he slow? Yeah, he himself had joked about all of that,” he
said.
He added: “And he kept on saying, when he came in, he was
brash as military head of state, he just did things on impulse, and he ordered
people to be locked up.
“But this time, as a converted democrat, he needed to follow
the due processes that the law says he should follow.
“What is wrong with that? Nigerians are very impatient. We
want to rush through things. But he says, ‘no. The democratic process sets the
rules. And I must not go against them.’”
While many Nigerians believed that the former president did
not know much about things happening under his watch as President, Shehu said
that his principal may have been the most aware and well-informed president
Nigeria has ever had.
Shehu said that Buhari deliberately allowed his work to
speak for itself rather than chase media attention or public applause.
“This thing about Buhari being unaware, it is totally, totally
misplaced. If you permit me, I would say that he perhaps would pass as the most
aware president Nigeria has ever had,” he stated.
Buhari was the first opposition leader to defeat an
incumbent government when he beat Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, to emerge president on the umbrella of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, in 2015.
Buhari ruled Nigeria for eight years, introducing economic
policies that were widely criticised by Nigerians.
Many Nigerians still believe that the Buhari administration
was responsible for the present economic challenges and hardship they are
facing today.
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