After President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) leaves office on May 29, 2023, Nigerians will respect him, according to Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity.
Beyond those who want to rewrite history and make Buhari's rule famous for the wrong reasons, he claimed, fair Nigerians would remember his leader for many of his accomplishments.
This was revealed by Adesina in his weekly essay, "NG-CARES: HOW BUHARI QUIETLY ATTENDS TO NEEDS OF NIGERIANS," where he listed the President's accomplishments.
According to him, history will adequately record the many ways in which President Buhari has quietly cared for Nigerians.
“Some revisionists are busy, trying to obfuscate issues and obliterate the achievements of the Buhari administration. But the truth is like a cork in water. The more you press it down, the more it stays afloat.
“After he retires to his native Daura, in Katsina State, we will always be glad that the honest man was here. I mean those who are fair-minded, but who happen to number in scores of millions,’ he wrote.
Adesina added, “The judgement of history is usually the most enduring, and as President Muhammadu Buhari weighs anchor in less than three weeks, posterity will be impartial, and, therefore, kind to him.
Adesina wrote about some of Buhari's interventions, “These welfarist interventions give a window into the kind soul of the President, a man some people have not bothered to discern, dissect and decipher.
“They just deliberately stay in the trenches of the past, soused and marooned in apocryphal beliefs: oh, he ruled with an iron fist as a military leader. He herded people into jail. He imprisoned journalists through Decree 4. He also had Decree 2, which gave him the power to detain anyone indefinitely.
“No human face. He’s Fulani, and therefore, a herdsman, who supports his people to attack farmers. Religious bigot, who does not recognize any other faith. True? False. And I should know. Why? Because I’ve worked with him closely for eight years, I can say I know the man Muhammadu Buhari, apart from the myth and the deliberate misconceptions.”
