Be fair to my administration - Buhari begs Nigerians

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Friday, asked Nigerians to be fair to his regime.

He said if they reflected on the country’s situation before the inception of his regime in May 2015, they would appreciate what he had done.

Buhari spoke during an interview with the Nigerian Television Authority monitored by our correspondents.

He said, “I want Nigerians to be fair to this administration. They should reflect seriously on the time we came in, especially relative to the North East and the South-South.

“They should consider where we are now, the resources, how much oil we are producing; the previous administration before me was producing 2.1 million barrels per day at the price cost of $100 per barrel.

“When we came in, militants in the South-South were unleashed on this administration and production went down to half a million barrels per day and then in the market, the oil market collapsed.

“I would like Nigerians to reflect on those in terms of resources and I believe that we have not done very badly.”

#EndSARS protesters

The President said the people who misbehaved during the #EndSARS protest would not go unpunished. He said this while justifying his tweet which was adjudged to be genocidal.

Buhari said, “What I mean is, how can you go to the police station, kill the police people who are there, loot the armoury and burn the place?

“What do you want to achieve by opening prisons and allowing criminals who have been tried by the legal system and let them escape?

“How can government stand aside and allow this confusion to be perpetrated? All they need is confusion and no government can allow confusion.

“Look at the #EndSARS incident. The previous governor of Lagos State bought 200 buses to complement the transportation in Lagos and he built a complex involving rails but they went and burnt them.

“The present governor made an album and came to see me, I said ‘thank you very much.’ I took the album, put it in my archive and said, ‘Tell Lagosians to work because we don’t have the money after the government bought 200 buses for some people to come and burn them, so let them work."