According to Garba Shehu, a media assistant to former President Muhammadu Buhari, his principal continues to receive a lot of visitors from all over the country despite the removal of fuel subsidies, which crippled transportation due to the high cost of fuel which has become a burden to him as he has little or no time to rest
In a statement released on Thursday to commemorate Buhari’s 100 days in office, Shehu made this claim.
He claimed that Tinubu’s removal of the fuel subsidy led to an increase in visitors when Buhari had anticipated a decrease.
Shehu named a few of the attendees as party supporters, grassroots organizations, farmers, craftspeople, artists, praise singers, nurses and medical personnel, religious and community leaders, as well as a number of other experts.
He explained that Bola Tinubu moved to Daura in Katsina State from the nation’s capital so that his administration could operate without interruption.
He said, “To manage the numbers, he has a weekly program drawn for him as they did while he was in the Villa. Visitors are scheduled on the program but there are so many people who just start their motor bikes and cars to head out to Daura to him in the belief that he has the time to receive all visitors.
“Not left out are those who benefited from the administration, one way or another. The other day, he was musing the decision to remove fuel subsidy by the Tinubu administration, saying he had hoped that it would lessen the pressure on him by constraining the large number of people who pick up their transport and head to Daura to see him from all parts of the country, but that he had noted that instead of they coming one by one, his friends, including the poor and the marginalized now group themselves, share costs to hire buses to come to see and talk to him.”
