Former President Muhammadu Buhari has pleaded with Nigerians to give his successor Bola Tinubu more time to turn things around in the country currently grappling with a social and economic meltdown.
Buhari, who was speaking in Abuja at the presentation of a book “Working with Buhari,” penned by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said President Tinubu was on course to revive the fortunes of the country.
“Government is a continuum; it is like a relay race. You run your course and hand over the baton to the next person. The present President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has my support and confidence in the quest for us to have a country of our dreams where there is emancipation for our teeming population.”
Speaking at the same venue President Tinubu said the eight years of Buhari were turbulent, but his administration will work to bring prosperity to the nation again.
“Our administration will continue to work, from where President Buhari stopped, to make our country better, create a vibrant economy and secure the environment to bring more prosperity to our people.
“It will be said glowingly of President Buhari that in his eight turbulent years, marked by an acute shortage of revenue, the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down the global economy for almost two years, his administration embarked on the most ambitious infrastructural renewal for the country,” he said.
He added that the insecurity currently plaguing the country will be a thing of the past as his government is working to secure the nation.
“I must say the job of securing every inch of our country is yet to be finished. My government will stamp out the remaining vestiges of Boko Haram, Ansaru, banditry and kidnapping gangs. We won’t rest until every agent of darkness is completely rooted out.”
