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Buhari Not Taking Credit For Jonathan’s Work – Shehu by Blacksodje(m): 12:46am On Sep 15, 2015 |
Malam Garba Shehu is the special assistant to the President on media and publicity. In this interview with select journalists, Shehu bares his mind on the achievements of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government and other issues in the polity. BODE GBADEBO was there for LEADERSHIP It has been 100 days since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office, what are some of his achievements so far? When the President visited the United States, he did say that he does not believe in celebrating 100-day in office because such activities are fraudulent and that he will not engage in deceit. That is why he went to his Daura home town. If Nigerians have anything to say about it, they should say it and I can assure you that the President will hear. But there will be no special activities about that. Does that mean there is nothing much to show? Well, Nigerians will decide whether there is anything to show or not. Without attempting to blow our own trumpet, I’ve just left a town hall meeting in Suleja organised by the BBC and I took my notes. The ordinary Nigerians are praising President Buhari for security in the country and some of them scored him 90 per cent and above. A tailor there who used to open shop for two hours in three days and now, they can open their shop for up to 20 hours a day and some of them are saying that sometimes they have 24 hours uninterrupted power supply. I think this is an opportunity to clear the useless claim by the PDP that it is the work of Jonathan that President Buhari has come to claim credit for. The records are there with the Ministry of Power. They are saying that power has improved because it is raining season, let me say that none of the hydro power plants has added any megawatt. What is going on is that, like the Americans will say, ‘There is a new Sheriff in town’. People are taking their cue from the fact that there is a no-nonsense President who has taken over the administration of this country and his body language sends the message. Nobody is blowing gas pipelines, the gas is flowing and there is better management and everybody is standing up to do the right thing. Better management also means better engagement. Whether it is the host communities or the youth groups who are undermining things, they are now witnessing an administration that is selfless and serving the country for the sake of the country. This is what is responsible for the improved power supply. No hydro station has increased output. The gas is flowing because people are sitting up. At the town hall meeting, somebody said they drove from Suleja to Yola and back without any policeman or soldier stopping them to ask for bribe and the same thing happened on the way back. There is an environment that has been generated by the presence of Buhari in Aso Rock. Whether anybody like it or not, it has changed things and we are feeling safer and when people go to sleep they are comforted by the fact that there is somebody who will bolt the door. All these things about security is happening because the soldiers themselves believe that they are being led by a caring leader. Citizens are feeling that the pressure of insecurity is going away not because Boko Haram has been eliminated completely but because of the work that has been done. The management that has been brought to bear on the nation’s security is reassuring. PDP wants to take away our attention. Nigerians are agitated about finding the Chibok girls and given the improved security, they still remain in captivity despite the fact that a lot was said about them during the campaigns? To be fair to President Buhari, did he ever say he will bring back the girls on the second day of his administration? What he has always said is that we don’t even know where the girls are and that we need to go in there and get the intelligence and situation of things and then act. Without meaning to endanger what is left of those girls, you know that the Sambisa forest is being degraded right now. The bombing is done in a careful manner to avoid certain locations of interest as far as Chibok girls are concerned. Please take note of what I am saying. I am not saying that the girls are here or there. But there is better intelligence now. In fact, Sambissa forest is under observation 24 hours in case somebody decide to move those girls from point A to point B. If there is any movement that is suspicious, we have drones, unmanned aircrafts that fly around the place at night and during the day, the men takes over and fly the aircraft. In the last few days, you even saw the Chief of Army Staff leading the troops and I am aware that in the last few weeks, very interesting pictures have been shown to the President on the basis of which we will say to Nigerians, don’t lose hope on the Chibok girls. I am not saying they have been found or that they have been seen but it is not yet time for Nigerians to say we have lost them. At one point security sources felt that the Cameroonians are screening Boko Haram members from their midst. Please when you see these kind of things, don’t think it is malicious. First, we need to know, who are these people? I am not accusing them of being Boko Haram, but I have been reliably informed that Cameroon is doing a better job because Boko Haram have also embedded themselves in IDP camps for safety and from the IDP camp they will leave to go and perpetuate evil. Cameroon is doing a better job in fishing them out. A lot of people have argued that the fight against corruption is selective and that it only existed on the pages of newspapers because nobody has been convicted yet. In all the years under Jonathan, how many high profile conviction did you get? But this is the era of change… This question would have been okay in 1984 when Buhari came to government in Army uniform. What they did then was to look around and send to jail all those accused of corruption. We all choose democracy and democracy has due process. Even if it is your wish that those accused of corruption should be jailed tomorrow, President Buhari will not do that because he has to follow the due process of law because the Constitution protects the rights of every Nigerian. If you have a case against anyone, go to the police or EFCC or ICPC. Even at that, they need time to investigate. Maybe that is why the anti-graft agencies don’t have a good record of conviction in the past because they didn’t do a good job. Immediately they take such cases to court, the Judge will enter a ‘no case’ submission because of the shoddy nature of how the case was investigated. Because there is a political motive for that investigation, the case will collapse immediately the hearing begins. This is going to be different. This crude oil theft which so much has been said and for which many countries have promised to help, when the President went to America, he did not ask Obama to give him the list of Nigerians involved or those who stole money. We are doing our own investigation after which the government will now say, thank you for blocking this account for a while until we are able to prove that the crude oil that left Nigeria on this day for one of your harbours did not have permission and papers to leave the shore of Nigeria and so was a stolen crude. Such a government will have to be convinced that this money is a proceed from stolen crude from Nigeria and we got promises from all over the world that they will return the money. When they return it, that again takes a process. President Buhari will go to a judge and say this and that country has returned this money because XYZ stole our crude and these are the proceeds. So, Nigerians will have to be patient with the President and the process. The President could be impatient himself, but he has his hands tied because the Constitution is very clear about the protections of rights. You will not be happy if the President begins to trample on the rights of fellow citizens. So, let there be due process for everyone. Is the government comfortable with what seems like imbalance appointments being made by the President? I know that these appointments do not constitute five per cent of the appointments the President is going to make and they will come in waves. The President has also made two more appointments from the South-West. Do you want northerners to start abusing him for giving two appointments to people from the South-West? They are emotional reactions to things that will come and go. This country has gone pass that stage. I am not talking about competence because in this country, we have so many competent people all over the place. But give it to the President, he has the right to choose those he will work with or cook his food. Somebody has cooked for him for 25 years and because of federal character you want him to remove him and bring in another person. These appointments are like a fan which must blow all sides. These things will come and Nigerians will feel adequately represented because it is the requirement of the Constitution of Nigeria and that is the position of the President because he is a fair leader, he is a just leader and will do right to all manners of people. Hold him to that. source: http://leadership.ng/news/460952/buhari-not-taking-credit-for-jonathans-work-shehu |
Re: Buhari Not Taking Credit For Jonathan’s Work – Shehu by mightycrown1(m): 12:46am On Sep 15, 2015 |
truly most of what we are enjoying presently is what the past government put in place but what is the value of the money that is released without proper follow up? most thanks go to baba because his presence is what is making everything to be working like magic. in fact that is the change we want. sai baba 2 Likes |
Re: Buhari Not Taking Credit For Jonathan’s Work – Shehu by MrZachs(m): 12:55am On Sep 15, 2015 |
Great Mynds!!! |
Re: Buhari Not Taking Credit For Jonathan’s Work – Shehu by boujaye: 1:00am On Sep 15, 2015 |
MrZachs:yes PMB may not be taking it but his party APC and anti-wailers are aleady taking Gej's credit 2 Likes |
Re: Buhari Not Taking Credit For Jonathan’s Work – Shehu by MrZachs(m): 1:08am On Sep 15, 2015 |
boujaye:Wondering whch among r y Sidyn?? |
Re: Buhari Not Taking Credit For Jonathan’s Work – Shehu by boujaye: 1:30am On Sep 15, 2015 |
MrZachs:Gej worked hard 1 Like |
Re: Buhari Not Taking Credit For Jonathan’s Work – Shehu by MrZachs(m): 1:43am On Sep 15, 2015 |
Re: Buhari Not Taking Credit For Jonathan’s Work – Shehu by donholy28(m): 2:34am On Sep 15, 2015 |
Well he's taking credit for gejs electricity 2 Likes |
Re: Buhari Not Taking Credit For Jonathan’s Work – Shehu by oduastates: 3:05am On Sep 15, 2015 |
mightycrown1: What did Jonathan put in place? At least I remember umaru doing some surface dressing and augmenting what obj did . Buhari took off from where obasanjo left the country's power sector. Simple Almost every single megawatt was paid for or built by obasanjo . Is it popolanto or geregu ? Is it omotosho or afam? Is it the conversion of Egbin thermal from coal to gas? Are you talking about the upgrade of the turbines in kanji , and shirroro? Even the state owned power projects like Enron , rivers and Akwa Ibom IPPs were built during obj tenure. Maybe Jonathan was the president in 2003 when obasanjo bullied the governors to allow him spends some of the excess crude account ( about $5 billion ) on building the above . No matter how often you tell your lies to convince yourself that your man was a success . The verdict from the world still remains . Jonathan was a mistake and colossal failure which should never have happened |
Re: Buhari Not Taking Credit For Jonathan’s Work – Shehu by Nobody: 3:24am On Sep 15, 2015 |
donholy28: What you call GEJ electricity is actually OBJ electricity. OBJ initiated the Presidential Road Map to power, enthroned all the IPP and employed Barth Nnaji, who has extensive experience to manage the Power Ministry. GEJ couldn't control electricity workers and pipeline vandals that's why the investments on electricity couldn't manifest. The only things Buhari has given this country are leadership and holding government officials accountable; and these are what Nigeria lacked overtime. 1 Like |
Re: Buhari Not Taking Credit For Jonathan’s Work – Shehu by lincolnj88: 7:06am On Sep 15, 2015 |
Hmmmm government is continuity, |
Re: Buhari Not Taking Credit For Jonathan’s Work – Shehu by Blacksodje(m): 10:14pm On Sep 15, 2015 |
lincolnj88:exactly..dnt think HE eva did |
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