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The Presidency has said President Muhammadu Buhari would leave the country in 2023 better and safer than he met it in 2015.
Naija News reports that Nigeria has been battling a myriad of security challenges across all parts of the country with banditry and kidnapping for ransom among other criminal activities.
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics on Sunday, Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina said President Buhari has done enough to leave a safer nation.
He asserted that when his principal took over power in 2015, the security situation was so terrible that it looked like the country was going to collapse.
Adesina stated that insurgency was the main security challenge when Buhari came to power but became hydra-headed – banditry, kidnapping for ransom, cultism, and separatist agitations.
He said: “No doubt about it. He would leave a safer country. When he came in 2015, you could not be sure Nigeria would exist in the next month. As of 2015, what was happening was that nobody could confidently say that Nigeria would be on the map in the following next week, month or year. But we saw that he came and took the battle to the insurgency.
“When he came, the insurgency was the main thing and he took the battle to them. Then, it became hydra-headed – banditry, kidnapping for ransom, cultism, and separatist agitations joined.
“How many challenges can one administration really confront? That’s the issue with the Buhari administration. From day one till now, it was from one challenge to the other.”
In spite of the security challenges in the country, Adesina maintained that the Buhari government had done much to curtail the threats and would leave a safer nation next year.
He admitted, however, that one administration cannot fully tackle the country’s security challenges and wants the next government to continue from where President Buhari would stop.
The Presidential spokesman added that even the world’s superpowers are battling one security issue or the other, saying that insecurity is not peculiar to Nigeria.
He added: “But we also see some calm in the country now. You can’t compare what we have today with what we had six months ago or one year ago. Six months is enough time to finish off what is on the ground.
“Security would always be a continuum. You would never get to a time you would sit back and say ‘We are all sound, safe and secure, no need to be alert again’. No, you would never get to that point.”
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