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Presidency Slams Financial Times Editor over his post on Buhari’s administration



Malam Garba Shehu, the SSA media to President Buhari has sent a stinging rebuke to the Financial Times of London, following an article on the Buhari administration.

The article titled — What is Nigeria’s Government for? — written by David Pilling, African editor of Financial Times was published on January 31, 2022.

In the article, Pilling said Buhari has “overseen two terms of an economic slump, rising debt and a calamitous increase in kidnapping and banditry”. He added that Nigeria has “sleepwalked closer to disaster” under Buhari.

“Next year, many of the members of government will change, though not necessarily the bureaucracy behind it. Campaigning has already begun for presidential elections that in February 2023 will draw the curtain on eight years of the administration of Muhammadu Buhari, on whose somnolent watch Nigeria has sleepwalked closer to disaster,” Pilling had said.

Reacting to Pilling’s article, Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, in a letter addressed to Financial Times, on Sunday, said the article left out the “security gains” of the current government.
“The caric@ture of a government sleepwalking into dis#ster is predictable from a correspondent who jets briefly in and out of Nigeria on the same British Airways flight he so criticizes”, Garba replied in his short and sharp rejoinder.

He highlights rising banditry in my country as proof of such slumber. What he leaves out are the security gains made over two Presidential terms. The terr#r organisation Boko Haram used to administer an area the size of Belgium at inauguration; now, they control no territory,” the statement read in part.

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