Jigawa State Governor, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar has declared that Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is the best thing to happen ever happen to the country.
He made this assertion on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme which was monitored by our correspondent, according to the governor, the has recorded a lot of achievements.
The programme anchor had asked him if he agrees with his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterparts who said Buhari is the best thing to happen to Nigeria and he responded thus: ‘I agree with the given circumstances we have now. I believe 100 per cent. I know what I inherited. I know the trouble I got through. I know at one time, I even wanted to leave. Really, without the support of Buhari, we wouldn’t have raised our heads up as governors.
‘If you remember, he bailed out all the states, gave 18-month support for us to pay salaries, I mean all of the governors. He paid the Paris fund money for all to do infrastructure.’
The Governor also said Buhari is handling the herder-farmer crisis well, saying the situation predates him.
‘The Fulani herdsmen crisis with the farmers has been brewing for so many years, and that developed over time because of the neglect of past leaders.’
‘Unfortunately for us, it gets right at this time and President Muhammadu Buhari is doing his best to solve this problem and curtail the onslaught.
‘If we look at this critically and analyze it critically, certainly the banditry and kidnapping did not start with Buhari, it just continued,‘ he added.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
