Former President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his dream of having a blissful rest in his hometown Daura in Katsina State is being ruined by people who pay unscheduled visits.
Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu said this in an article titled, “One Hundred Days After Buhari”.
Shehu stated that Buhari chose to stay in Daura to be far away from Abuja in order not to distract the new APC administration and in the hope also that the distance will make it possible for him to have a good rest and to care for his farm which had not received as much attention as it needed while he was away.
“He goes to the farm four days of the week and is upbeat about how well the crops and his animals are now doing,” Shehu said.
According to him, Buhari “gets a good measure of rest but the visits have not abated. 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.
“Among his many “special guests” are party faithful, grassroots groups, farmers, artisans, artists, praise singers, nurses and doctors, religious leaders, community leaders and several other professionals. 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.
“So while it is the case that some in the country were happy that he was no longer in office, there are some, even more that continue to cherish and admire him.”