Buhari’s administration smarter than GEJ’s –Adesina

The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina, says the present administration is smarter than the regime of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the way it handled the abduction and subsequent release of 344 students of the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara local government area of Katsina State.

In a piece he posted on Friday, December 25, on his Facebook series, “From the Inside,” entitled ‘Enemies Of The Country Will Lose Las Las,’ Adesina said “Buhari acted smartly during the Kankara and Dapchi abductions while former President Jonathan was tardy in its response to the Chibok abduction.”

Comparing the two administrations’ response to the three major mass abduction of students that have rocked Nigeria in the past few years, Adesina said Buhari has come out in flying colours.

In the piece, the former Editor-in-Chief of the Sun Newspapers said:

“The Kankara students’ abduction is not the first in the history of the nation. Non-state actors had in the past abducted hundreds of secondary school girls from Chibok, in Borno State; and Dapchi in Yobe State.

“Some of them eventually regained freedom while a number of them, including Leah Sharibu, are still detained in the enclaves of their abductors and sexual abusers.

“While the Kankara (December 2020) and Dapchi (February 2018) abductions occurred during the Buhari regime, the Chibok abduction (April 2014) happened during the Jonathan administration.

“Now, while there are similitudes between Chibok, Dapchi, and Kankara, the significant difference is the response by the different governments in power.

“When Chibok occurred, the then Goodluck Jonathan-led government demurred. They balked. They said no abduction happened, and that it was an attempt at negative propaganda by the then party in opposition, the All Progressives Congress, to get power.

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“By the time government wisened up, the abductors had gone far, and the trail was cold. They couldn’t recover the girls, not until the Buhari government came a year later, and a large chunk of the hapless abductees were brought back. Some are still unaccounted for till today.

“When Dapchi happened some years later, the Buhari government behaved differently. It swung into action, went after the abductors, and through a combination of deft factors, the girls were brought back. Except Leah Sharibu.

“With Kankara on our hands, despite the strident cacophony of the market, President Buhari kept his cool, and went to work. And the needful was done. The boys were recovered after about six days in captivity.”

Adesina also had some scathing words for Nigerians who came up with the #BringBackOurBoys campaign, as according to him, “suddenly went underground after the release of the Kankara boys.”

“If #Bring Back Our Girls brought down a People’s Democratic Party government, then #Bring Back our Boys must also undo the APC government. But the campaigners lost their voices, particularly on social media.

“They vanished after the boys were released. But instead of admitting final defeat, instead of throwing up their hands in surrender, saying that this government was smarter than they thought, they became like Janus, the mythical creature with two faces, and began to speak from two different mouths.

“God is interested in this entity called Nigeria. Most times, we live dangerously, but He always pulls us back from the edge of the brink. Those who hate the President for no just cause, who wish evil for their own country, are just injuring their own souls. They will fail las las, and become gentle by force.”

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