What Garba Shehu Told BBC Hausa Concerning Decisions Buhari Govt Took

Garba Shehu, the former Senior Special Assistant (Media & Publicity) to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, revealed in an interview with BBC Hausa in Kaduna that Buhari has never expressed regret over the decisions he made during his tenure.

Shehu addressed concerns raised after a news report quoted Femi Adesina, the former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, as saying that the former President had regrets about certain decisions made during his eight-year administration.

Shehu clarified that Adesina’s statement had been either misunderstood or taken out of context.

He said: “The newspaper that carried the story wanted to attract people’s attention and make sales. If not, what’s it that was done that would lead to regrets?”

He said all that his principal did while in government were for the Nigerian people and not for any selfish reason. “Therefore the talk of regret does not even arise.”

Buhari has done so many things in different sectors for the people, he maintained, adding: “But that’s how things used to be; once an elephant is down, people will bring out their knives and struggle for a cut.”

“Our leader, Muhammadu Buhari, has done well. And if people fail to talk about that now, perhaps they will talk about that in the future. They would be fair to him and talk about the good things he did in the country.”

In response to the accusation that Nigeria has been confronted with a multitude of challenges, resulting in current difficulties, Shehu asserted that no government, anywhere in the world, can entirely resolve all the problems encountered by a nation.

He said: “If there were hardships or problems, these should be looked into, to know how they came about. There is no administration in this country that found itself in economic problems like Buhari’s, because of our dependence on oil and prices, which went down.

“We also had the Coronavirus pandemic. Nations shut their doors and the economy plummeted. “But,Alhamdulillah, Buhari brought the Nigerian economy out of that crisis.”