President Bola Tinubu says his government will continue with the various developmental strides of the past APC-led administration, describing ex-President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime as “eight turbulent years.”
He said this at the public presentation of books on former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in Abuja.
“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.
Mr Tinubu said the transportation roadmap of Mr Buhari’s regime was a laudable project, adding that his government will complete the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Expressway.
He also said eliminating elements of darkness that foment trouble in the country would be sustained, adding that Buhari had done the best in the situation.
Mr Tinubu stated, “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.
“President Buhari assumed office at a very difficult period of our national life when the economy was spiralling into recession, and Boko Haram had taken over swaths of our territory in the North-East.”
The president added, “At a point, it appeared even Abuja, the seat of government, would fall into the hands of Boko Haram with the bombing of the UN building, Banex Plaza, Nyanya and other locations within the Federal Capital Territory.”