Buhari’s four weeks in office better than Jonathan’s 5 years, says Lai Mohammed
Lai Mohammed, national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), believes that the performance of President Muhammadu Buhari in tackling insecurity outweighs that of former President Goodluck Jonathan throughout his five years in office.
Appealing to Nigerians to exercise patience with the current administration, Mohammed blamed the delay in appointing a cabinet on the lack of cooperation of the past administration.
He was speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday.
“It’s been about one month now since President Buhari assumed office, and I can tell you that there has been motion, and there has been movement, contrary to what is being peddled in some quarters,” he said.
“Justifiably, the expectations are high and urgent, and the Buhari administration has started addressing them, despite the enormous challenges that it faces, including an empty treasury and an economy that has virtually collapsed.
“The Buhari administration got the handover notes from the former government just four days before the inauguration, hampering its efforts to have a clear understanding of the situation on the ground before taking the necessary measures to address it.
“If any disease is not appropriately diagnosed, it cannot be effectively treated. Any government that is truly desirous of bringing about real change will not act hastily and without the necessary understanding of what is on ground. coupled with the delay in getting the much-needed information, that takes time.
“The Buhari administration has hit the ground running in the area of security. The president had hardly been sworn into office than he embarked on a shuttle diplomacy to rally Nigeria’s neighbours to act as a common front against the terror group Boko Haram.
“The President travelled to Chad and Niger, and then hosted a summit of the Lake Chad Basin Commission that comprised Cameroon, Chad and Niger, with Benin also invited. President Buhari has also rallied the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) to work with Nigeria in battling the Boko Haram insurgency. A joint summit of leaders of both economic blocs is to be held shortly to concretise these efforts that will complement the one by Nigeria and its neighbours.
“The result is the decision to deploy the Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), with headquarters in N’Djamena, Chad, on July 30th to pep up the fight against Boko Haram! This is the same force that the past administration could not get off the ground in six years!”
Jonathan was president for five years – from 2010 to 2015.
slowly and steadily, PMB clearing PDP mess
Agreed. At least we are not hearing as much garbage coming from your mouth
All that he has done, what are the results? the bombs are still going on. The same Lai castigated the former govt position on rebasing the economy but still being poor. With the MJTF, we still hae bombs going off everyday
Clearing the mess left behind will take some time.patience is needed.
I hope we’ll not discover we’ve been duped by getting the APC into power.
Who is fooling who? Why is Alhaji Lai Mohammed busy playing politics instead of moving Nigeria forward. What makes PMB’s 4 weeks in office better than Jonathan’s 5 years? PMB and his party are deceiving innocent Nigerians, He promised to crate employment during campaign and now wants to scrap some ministry, where will he employ the people, is it in his Daura farm?
Talk,talk & more talk &no single action to match.We need action not empty talk!
Lai Mohammed talks too much and most of what he says are pure lies. He should stop playing politics and start working. Nigerians are getting fed up with his excuses. Even an idiot could see that they don’t have any thing new to offer, they are doing the exact same things the previous administration did, so where is the CHANGE? Come to think of it, talking about insecurity, Boko Haram is just having a stroll in the park unchallenged. Is this the kind of security they want to offer us?