President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Daura, Katsina State, implored historians and intellectuals to be factual in keeping the records of the administration, especially in guiding the electorate to make the right choices of leadership for the country.

The President, who made the plea when he received some governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at his country home, said the future of the country would be shaped by the diligence and honesty of those who document history and provide analysis of situations, knowing the value of what obtained in the past, and afterwards.

President Buhari in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said it would be unfortunate to mislead electorate with lies, and personal bias, reiterating the need to put the larger interest of the country beyond other colourations.


The statement quoted President Buhari as saying, “For the time remaining, and for those who have one more term in office based on the provision of the constitution, the elections are important to the parties.

“Intellectuals and historians should be fair to us so that those who are looking for leadership positions will not exploit the political ignorance or lack of knowledge of the people.”



He told the governors to remain steadfast on delivering their promises to the people.

He said, “We have done our best and thank God for what we have been able to achieve with the available resources, otherwise we would have been in trouble.”

The President said the security situation had improved compared to the instability in the North East before 2015, and the South-South, where some parts of the north were directly under the control of terrorists, while the south was facing serious challenges.


According to him, “The subsequent development in the North West is the most amazing, where people who lived together, spoke the same language and shared common faith started killing each other and rustling cows.

“I had to change the security chiefs and we had to get down to the fundamentals of providing security. If you look at the situation in relation to time and resources, you will find out what we have been able to achieve.”

President Buhari noted that oil prices fell from more than 100 dollars to less than 38 dollars under his administration, and the output that was 2.1 million barrels a day dropped to about 500,000 barrels, yet a lot was achieved.


In his remarks, the Governor of Kebbi State and Chairman of Progressive Governors Forum, Atiku Abubakar Bagudu, thanked the President for providing vision and strong leadership for the APC, noting that the efforts to mainstream agriculture as the mainstay of the economy was yielding results.

“I drove from Kebbi State to Daura, and stopped to pick the Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, and realized that for the eight hours of coming here, we didn’t see more than 10km of land that was not cultivated.

“It goes to show that the efforts to improve security is also paying off. Farmers are taking advantage and planting. In six weeks, Your Excellency, you have commissioned projects in Lagos, Kano, Katsina and Borno States, and also launched some projects virtually.


“We appreciate the projects the federal government is doing in every state of the country and supporting governors, even those that are not so progressive,’’ he said.

Bagudu said three governors, Prof Ben Ayade of Cross River, David Umahi of Ebonyi and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara left their former parties to join the APC because of the fatherliness, equitable character and focus of the President on bottom-up development.

“We are proud to have you as our leader. Your achievements and ideals are inculcated in all of us,’’ he noted.

The governors at the meeting with the President also include Prof Ben Ayade of Cross River, David Umahi of Ebonyi, Bello Matawalle of Zamfara, John Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, who is Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina, Simon Lalong of Plateau and Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano.

Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger, Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun and Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa States were also part of the homage to President Buahri’s country home.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/be-fair-to-us-in-your-documentation-buhari-tells-historians-intellectuals/amp/

lol yea they should be truly nd let the world know

How u take sell us a scam Integrity..

How u take become Shock absorber always getting shock...

And always looking for someone to blame for your failure....

President Buhari in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said it would be unfortunate to mislead electorate with lies, and personal bias, reiterating the need to put the larger interest of the country beyond other colourations.


Presidency speech...
Buhari is unaware of this epistle
Confused mofos

Okay...


Censoring some of the atrocities perpetrated by your government is even a consideration well-meaning historians should make.

Documenting every thing done by this government in all honesty and fairness is not even advisable, talk more of when maggi is added to it.

Anyone who tries to add such ingredient to an already-woeful history should be charged for inhumanity.

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Wahala ma wa dey o.

Fair what?

If really you are doing well, you don't need to beg anybody before that would be done. Yaradua didn't ask anybody to do that , his antecedent speaks for him.

He will be remembered for his lies, ineptitudeness and atrocities. For making the country to undergo successive recession. He forgot to mention that oil price is now $70+ and nothing to show for it, except for inflation, increase in the price of commodities and cost of living.

Dear Nigerians/BMCs, is Buhari aware of this statement?

Oga Buhari, you'll be judge by your deeds. There's nothing to be fair about.

I am not his fan, but this guy deserve a hot slap....

Lalasticlala.

Tins bad sote, my neigbours dey talk am sey dem no fit buy ram. Salah dry no be small as money ibawa.

Who dey lie pass, bandits killing na lie? Bad economy na lie? Kidnapping na lie?

Honesty111:
Oga Buhari, you'll be judge by your deeds. There's nothing to be fair about.

Na so oooo

Confused idiot

You should ask yourself if you’re fair to Nigerians Buhari. I mean Southern Nigerians o, you’ve been fair enough to the North by rehabilitating Bokoharam and releasing them back to the society and at the same time you refuse to proscribe Bandits as Terrorist! Tiri Gbosa for you! Baba for the Terrorist.

Only if the historians and intellectuals are zombies, if not, the history of Buhari’s double reign will be written with red pen.

Posterity will say a lot about this administration.

What is this fare he is talking about,what is the meaning of fare,to who

History itself will not be fair to you. Were you fair to Nigerians?

Sometimes I wonder how all ds disjointed words come out of his mouth. People will be asking him one thing, he'd be answering another thing. Such a low budget Abacha.

Look who is asking for fairness? Did he treat Nigerians with fairness? An anti- intellectual asking intellectuals to be kind and fair to him. Buhari is not different from the proverbial Crocodile who she'd tears while devouring it's prey.

Do we still have historians in this country wen you guys remove history from our educational curriculum.

Fake people!

Don't worry very soon your phone will stop ringing and people will even forget the dusty road to daura in few years.

I don’t understand. Should they reduce the number of casualties killed by your kinsmen? And say you didn’t ban crypto and Twitter?

The number of books that will be written and untold stories we shall be told when buhari steps down will be earth shaking. Strangely it's those around the president that will be revealing all these

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LibertyRep:
Posterity will say a lot about this administration.

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Your administration will be remembered as the one that took Nigeria to the brink of abyss

Well posterity will judge everyone whether historian or intellectual. They said Buhari is not good but he was reelected how that happened?