The spokesperson to the President, Femi Adesina said Muhammadu Buhari is a better leader to Nigerians compared to former Nigerian leaders, Obafemi Awolowo, Aminu Kano, and Nnamdi Azikiwe.
He made the statement in an article published on his Facebook wall titled, ‘The essential Buhari: VP Osinbajo got it!’
According to him, Buhari is a credible leader with all his achievements.
He said Buhari is credible, hailing Vice President Yemi Osibanjo for painting Buhari as a good leader at an event in London.
He quoted Osinbajo as saying that Buhari is “possibly Nigeria’s most popular politician that we have had in generations”.
Adesina said, “I am old enough to have seen our colorful and even swashbuckling politicians in action. I have seen the great Obafemi Awolowo. The charismatic Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zik of Africa). Shehu Shagari. Amino Kano. M.K.O Abiola. Bashir Tofa, and many others in action. But I have not seen anyone with the kind of attraction, magnetic pull, that Muhammadu Buhari has. And that is round the country, north, and south. People swarm round him as bees do to honey.
“I have been round the country with the President. I have also been to several countries of the world with him. I have not seen any other Nigerian leader, past or present, with his kind of allure, pull, fascination, magnetism. And that is why VP Osinbajo is right to have described him as possibly “the most popular Nigerian politician that we ever had in this generation.”
Awolowo and Azikiwe are Nigerian leaders who were well known for leaving footprints on the sand of time during their time.