Former President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said, on Wednesday, that the ex-President regretted some of the decisions he took while in office and felt he could have done some things better.
According to Adesina, who spoke
in Osogbo on Wednesday, such is normal for any human being.
The ex-presidential spokesman
was a guest at a programme tagged ‘Media Dialogue with Femi Adesina’ organised
by the Association of Veteran Journalists in Osun State.
He said before Buhari left
office, he had a two-hour chat with him, during which he asked all manner of
questions.
“There is no living human being
that will not regret certain things. It is one of the questions I asked the
President.
“Before we left office, I sat
with him for about two hours and I asked him every question under the sun;
there was no question I didn’t ask him. There were things he (Buhari) felt
could have been done better,” Adesina said.
He, however, defended Buhari’s
controversial naira redesign policy, saying it was for the good of the nation.
“You will recall that even during that time, there was no kidnapping. I remember some people went to kidnap an APC chairman or is it secretary in Kano. After holding him for three days and nobody was calling to ask how much they will collect because there was no cash, they just slapped him three times and told him to go.
“Even kidnappers were out of
business because there was no naira and do you know that we have a cleaner election
because of that policy?
“Nine serving governors
couldn’t go to the Senate. They contested but lost. Have you ever seen a
governor who will contest an election and will not win? But because there was
no money to spread around, they couldn’t win. The policy was not bad in its
entirety. There were issues with it but it was not bad in its entirety,” he
said.
[Punch]
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