President Muhammadu Buhari made sure to remind Nigerians that his administration has performed much better than is credited by his critics, compared to where he picked up from in 2015.
Buhari while hosting the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrims Commission, Reverend Yakubu Pam, at the Villa on Wednesday, said, his performance is not being fairly assessed by those who chose to be willfully blind despite significant improvements recorded by his government.
Speaking through his media aide, Femi Adesina, he said, “Those criticising the administration should be fair in terms of reflecting on where we were before we came, where we are now and what resources are available to us and what we have done with the limited resources.
“We had to struggle paying debts, investing in road repairs and rebuilding, to revamp the rail and try to get power. This is what I hope the elite, when they want to criticise will use to compare notes.”
On the security situation especially in the Northeast, the President remarked: “What was the situation when we came? Try and ask people from Borno or from Adamawa for that matter and Yobe. What was the condition before we came and what is the condition now? Still, there are problems in Borno and Yobe, there are occasional Boko Haram problems, but they know the difference because a lot of them moved out of their states and moved to Kaduna, Kano and here (in Abuja). We were not spared of the attacks at a time. The government is doing its best and I hope that eventually, our best will be good enough.”