In the first week of his return, President Muhammadu Buhari walked his talk on his intense desire to pay back to Nigerians by way keeping their trust and serving their interests.
“His reply to the people for their support and trust is to work much harder for them. The president didn’t have a day off or even a light week at all throughout his week of resumption,” his spokesman Garba Shehu said in an interview with Pyramid Radio in Kano.
In reaction to a question on the engagement of the president in his first in office, Malam Garba told his interviewer that: “I read those analyses and I believe they were mostly wrong. What they don’t understand is that the President doesn’t follow official working hours because he is on duty all the time. He has another office by his living room so he works from home when most civil servants have closed.”
The spokesman said that contrary to some of the assumptions, President Buhari had an engaging week devoted mostly to policy issues not ceremonial events.
“He started on Monday with the letters he sent to the two arms of the parliament signifying his return to work. He then went in for a handover briefing by the vice president.”
They had a lot to discuss between themselves.
Although he gave specific mandates to the Acting president, he needed to be brought up to speed on the developments in the Supreme Court, the Niger Delta, the economy with particular reference to the Economic
Recovery and Growth Plan, ERPG, which was launched in his absence and programmes like the Small and Medium Enterprises Clinic which have strong connections to the agricultural strategy of the administration,” Shehu explained.