Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, has faulted claims by some people that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed the country.
He said the claims were not true, adding that Buhari has instead, been taking rubbish by some Nigerians to in a manner that even a former civilian President before him could not even tolerate.
Speaking in a Television Continental interview in Abuja on Sunday, Masari, who hails from the same state as Buhari, said: “The rating of the President has not changed. Anybody saying that the rating of the Buhari administration has gone down should wait till when we would have an election.
“Protests are necessary in a democracy. Even in the best democracy in the world, people protest. The fact that we have democracy does not mean that people should not complain or protest.
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“I don’t think Buhari has failed us, I think he has tolerated us. We once had a civilian president who couldn’t take the rubbish that Buhari is taking from some people”.
The governor said that the ruling All Progressives Congress remains “the strongest, most reliable, and dependable party in Nigeria today.”
On the dialogue between his government and bandits, Masari said, “I started the idea of dialogue with bandits way back in 2016 in collaboration with the heads of security agencies and we visited areas where the bandits were in charge. Some of them laid down their arms but the agitation continues and it escalated last year with the kidnap of the Kankara boys.
“The previous dialogue failed because the bandits are not under an organised leadership or umbrella. They are in various groups and categories.”