In Fight For Buhari’s Legacy, MURIC Makes New Counterclaims

An Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has risen to the defence of the legacy of the immediate past president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhaari.

MURIC insists that nobody could rubbish  what it calls as the good legacy of former president Buhari whom it describes as standing tall among all past leaders of Nigeria. 

This was disclosed in a statement issued on Thursday, 14th December, 2023 by the Executive Director of the group, Professor Ishaq Akintola.

MURIC in defending the legacy of Buhari said:

“We as a group always find it amusing when some people try to rubbish the achievements of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari. He stands tall among all past leaders of Nigeria. 

“Apart from the first prime minister of Nigeria, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, the former Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello and former military head of state, Muritala Muhammed, no other Nigerian leader stands to be counted for altruism, patriotism, transparency, credibility and integrity like Muhammadu Buhari.

“Those who describe Buhari as a failure are either being deliberately mischievous for the purpose of scoring cheap political points or suffering from collective amnesia. Judged from the standpoint of the circumstances of the time, Buhari achieved a lot for Nigeria.

“17 local governments were still under the full control of Boko Haram when Buhari took over in 2015. It was so bad that the British Brodcasting Corporation (BBC) said Boko Haram was controlling the size of Belgium but Buhari pushed them back and recovered all territories. Nigerian troops who used to flee to Niger or Chad during fierce clashes with insurgents due to lack of better weapons became emboldened under the Daura-born president. 

“This was made possible because instead of diverting funds meant for weapons and military hardware, Buhari made Nigeria’s money count. He strengthened the military by purchasing the most sophisticated weaponry from everywhere in the world, including American Tucano fighting jets and attack helicopters,” the MURIC executive director said in defence of Buhari’s legacy.

“This was a president who miraculously escaped the most deadly assassination attempt in history. He was exposed to the most perfect gas poisoning plot of all times and was pronounced dead by his adversaries on different occasions. But like the cat with nine lives, Buhari lived on. Of course this attempt on his life took its toll on him as he laid incommunicado for five months. 

“His list of achievements include, but not limited to, the Mambilla Hydropower project of 3050 megawatts which he started 40 years after it was abandoned. Buhari reduced out of school pupils from 10.5 million to 8.6 million in two years according to statistics from both UNICEF and UNESCO and introduced the feeding of over five million pupils every school day in 19 states. 

 Giving more reasons for its defence of Buhari’s legacy, MURIC continued:

“Buhari also increased saving in Excess Crude Account and increased foreign reserves to $40 billion from $29 billion which he inherited. He constantly bailed out states with trillions of naira to be able to pay workers and run their governments. He reduced monthly import bill from $5 billion to $1.5 billion. The N-Power Volunteer Scheme created jobs for hundreds of thousands unemployed graduates in all the 36 states and the FCT. The construction of the second Niger bridge is a feat worth celebrating but nothing is being heard even from the region which enjoys it most,” MURIC said in defence of the legacy of Buhari who was Nigerian president from 2015 to 2023.

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