Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has claimed that most Nigerians still believe that the current administration is doing its best on security matters.
Femi Adesina disclosed this on Wednesday during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today monitored by Quest Times.
Responding to a question on the failure of the APC-led government to nip the insecurity in the country in the bud, Adesina said, “Well… they (Buhari’s critics) who have described it (Nigeria’s security) as a failure have a right to their opinion, it doesn’t make them right”.
He continued; “There are millions of Nigerians who still believe that the government has done and doing its level-based on this matter of insecurity.
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“Yes, the party (APC) promised it will secure the country, and listen to the president anytime he talks about his three priorities for Nigeria right from the first term to the second term and now to 10 months to the end of his administration; to secure the country, revive the economy, and fight corruption. These three still remain his topmost priorities.
“If you want to assess a government, you do that by assessing what it has promised to do and how far it has gone in achieving those promises.
“The current security is not the same way as it was inherited (from PDP). There was improvement in the situation of security in the first year.
“In fact, the insurgency in the country which was the main problem was beaten up to the point that it was said that Boko Haram in Nigeria was “technically degraded.”
“But you see that later there was a resurgence. This was the main problem in 2015. Later banditry, kidnappings, and cult killings joined. It became hard!
“And so, you don’t begin to say government has failed for a problem that suddenly went out of control. Security is a challenge. Anything can still happen before the end of this administration. You don’t begin to conclude that he (Buhari) has failed on security when its time is not up yet”.