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We won’t rest until we crush bandits, other ‘agents of darkness’: Tinubu

Mr Tinubu said his administration would not rest until “every agent of darkness” was rooted out of the country.

• January 16, 2024
President Bola Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday assured that his administration would stamp out the remaining vestiges of Boko Haram, banditry and kidnapping gangs in the country.

Mr Tinubu gave the assurance in Abuja at the unveiling of a book entitled: ‘Working with Buhari: Reflections of a Special Adviser, Media and Publicity (2015-2023).

Femi Adesina, the special adviser on media and publicity to former President Muhammad Buhari, wrote the book.

Mr Tinubu said his administration would not rest until “every agent of darkness” was rooted out of the country.

“My government will stamp out the remaining vestiges of Boko Haram, banditry and kidnapping gangs,” Mr Tinubu assured. “We won’t rest until every agent of darkness is completely rooted out.”

He thanked Mr Adesina for using his memoirs to reveal the challenging eight years of the Buhari administration and how he steered the ship of state.

He recalled that Mr Buhari assumed office at a challenging period when the economy was spiralling into recession, and Boko Haram had taken over some territories in North-East.

“At a point, it appeared that even Abuja, the seat of government would fall into the hands of Boko Haram with the bombing of the United Nations (UN) Building, Banex Plaza, Nyanya and other locations.

“We cannot easily forget how our armed forces battled the Boko Haram terrorists under the leadership of Buhari to reclaim our territory and push them to the fringes of Lake Chad where they no longer pose an existential threat to our sovereignty.

“I must say the job of securing every inch of our country is yet to be finished,“ Mr Tinubu said.

He said that despite what Mr Adesina recorded in his books as Mr Buhari’s achievements, history would also be kind to him as a leader who promoted local production of goods to grow the Nigerian economy.

“It will be said glowingly of President Buhari that in his eight turbulent years, marked by an acute shortage of revenue, the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down the global economy for almost two years, his administration embarked on the most ambitious infrastructural renewal for the country,” he said.

Mr Tinubu said the transportation roadmap of Mr Buhari’s regime was a laudable project, adding that his government will complete the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Expressway.

(NAN)

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