Garba Shehu counters Remi Tinubu, says Buhari rescued Nigeria’s economy

Former President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, has asserted that his boss was responsible for rescuing Nigeria’s economy.

But First Lady Remi Tinubu clamed her husband, President Bola Tinubu, inherited a country that was already damaged during a church event to mark Nigeria’s Independence.

“All we inherited are things that had happened many years ago; we are not here to put blame on any administration but to fix what has been damaged,” Mrs Tinubu said.

But Shehu claimed in an interview with BBC Hausa Service that no previous administration had experienced the same level of financial difficulty as Buhari’s.

He also said no administration in the entire globe is able to resolve every issue a country has.

“If there were hardships or problems, these should be looked into, to know how they came about,” Mr Shehu said.

“No administration in this country found itself in economic issues like Buhari’s because of our dependence on oil and prices, which went down.

“We also had the Coronavirus pandemic. Nations shut their doors, and the economy plummeted. But, Alhamdulillah, Buhari brought the Nigerian economy out of that crisis.”