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As President Muhammadu Buhari celebrates his 79th birthday on Friday, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has listed the achievements and challenges of the current administration.
Garba in a statement issued on Thursday reiterated the commitment of his principal in tackling the challenges that need to be met before the expiration of his tenure in 2023.
According to him, the coronavirus pandemic has thrown the biggest challenge to the Buhari administration, for the obvious reason that it kept under attack, not only the health of citizens but the economy and environment.
See the full statement issued by Garba Shehu below:
AS PRESIDENT BUHARI CLOCKS 79, A FOCUS ON ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES
By Garba Shehu
President Muhammadu Buhari marks the age of 79 on Friday 17, without the joy of being with the family and the country he governs, seeking to maximize bilateral benefits in critical areas of Nigeria’s safety, survival and economic development in a distant country, Turkey.
As President in the last six years, he has had several achievements to his credit. But there are also challenges that need to be met in the balance of 15 months before he leaves office upon the completion of two terms in office.
As with all the countries around the globe, the coronavirus pandemic has thrown the biggest challenge to the Buhari administration, for the obvious reason that it kept under attack, not only the health of citizens but the economy and environment.
For a country and a continent designated for a world record of positive cases and deaths, yet turning in the lowest in terms of numbers, the explanation our people give here is to say “Thank God,” and they move on.
Nothing wrong with thanking God for everything that happens or does not, for, without His grace, nothing can truly get done (or undone).
But the Almighty uses the instrumentality of humans to get some of these things done.
These last two years, President Buhari led a government that believes in science and in our doctors that put in place an effective mechanism to check the spread of the pandemic and we are where we are today because this dedicated team has responded in the most capable manner any country could ever do.
He gave the experts the latitude of freedom and resources to lead us out of the worst-case scenarios…
