Former presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, has said ex-President Muhammadu Buhari was a victim of the crisis of expectations.

Shehu, the ex-Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Buhari, also said Nigerians also expect lofty feats from their leaders, which have not augured well in the time past.

He spoke at the 21st Trust Dialogue with the theme:” Tinubu’s Economic Reforms: Gainers and Losers”.

The former presidential media aide said some of the problems Buhari had were as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the war between Russia and Ukraine in 2022, which affected grain importation.


Shehu, therefore, as Nigerians to lower their expectations anytime they march to the polls to elect president, adding that no leader can solve all the nation’s problems.

“His government banned the importation of rice because we were growing as much as we needed for the country. In fact, Nigeria fed West Africa. You need to be in any of the border states, either Kano, Katsina or Jigawa to see how food, even as of today, is being moved massively out of the country. We are feeding West Africa.

“There were many challenges during the time he was in power. I don’t need to mention them. You all know about this. Was it Covid or the war in Ukraine? You know all of these things. In a nutshell, this is to say that he was a victim of a crisis of expectation.

“And I think that is the lesson for Nigerians with what I have seen with Buhari’s critics. And this for Tinubu, and any other president that will come thereafter is that Nigerians should begin to lower their expectations especially where those expectations are simply inhumane. Leaders can do a lot of things. But no one leader can do everything for one given nation.”

He also said the construction of the Second Niger Bridge was a big achievement by his former boss, as he said, “Before Buhari, it used to take Christians in the East or South West two to three days to go home for Christmas because the traffic clumped on the Niger Bridge.”

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Ok ooo.
Garba Shehu and Femi Adesina, I don't know who used the Media as a tool of deceit under the Buhari govt pass.
Hear this Shehu man come and be doing unsolicited shalaye. Who ask him.
Who ask Buhari to be promising to take dollar to N1 and too many vague promises he cannot fulfill
Buhari was the most clueless and incompetent president in Nigeria, Period.

I don't give a f***k

He can go and write his own book.

Rubbish. The war in Ukraine led to oil prices of $100 a barrel but because of a dullard who was c in c and petrol minister, Nigeria failed to maximise its opec quota because of oil theft. Imagine ghost stealing 800k barrels every day

Too much expectation but that olofo lifeless was a failure but what annoy me was how this eleribu manna asslicked him chai nah motor go kill him laslas inshalla

If Buhari could not end corruption even in the Presidency and his family, then he failed mightily.

Many of us put our reputations on the line and swore that if not Buhari, who else was principled enough to stamp out greed and corruption from the Nigeria DNA.

Ano really blame characters like shehu and Adeshina

Na Nigerians wey reinforce una failures I blame

In fact Buhari is the best thing after fried rice and tinubu is doing perfectly well