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By Chinelo Obogo
The former Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has insisted that the former president brought Nigeria’s economy out of crisis.
Shehu made the remark during an interview with BBC Hausa while dismissing claims that Buhari’s administration threw Nigeria into problems leading to the current hardship.
Buhari has done so many things in different sectors for the people, he maintained, adding: “But that’s how things used to be; once an elephant is down, people will bring out their knives and struggle for a cut.
“Our leader, Muhammadu Buhari, has done well and if people fail to talk about that now, perhaps they will talk about that in the future. They would be fair to him and talk about the good things he did in the country,” he said
On allegation that Nigeria was thrown into myriads of problems, leading to current predicaments, Shehu said there was no government in the world that can solve all problems faced by a nation.
“If there were hardships or problems, these should be looked into, to know how they came about. There is no administration in this country that found itself in economic problems like Buhari’s, because of our dependence on oil and prices, which went down.
“We also had the Coronavirus pandemic. Nations shut their doors and the economy plummeted. But,Alhamdulillah, Buhari brought the Nigerian economy out of that crisis,” he said
