President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, Governor of Borno for his courage in the fight against Boko Haram insurgency.
Buhari made this commendation in an interview with Tambarin Hausa, a media outfit, which was published on Wednesday.
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In the interview, Mr. Buhari talked about insecurity, the state of economy and corruption in the country.
He said when he assumed office in 2015, only three out of 27 local governments of Borno were not under Boko Haram’s full or partial control.
However, he explained that with the commitment of the federal government and Gov. Zulum’s administration in the state, order has been restored to all the localities.
He explained that the unprecedented success would not have been possible without the vital role played by Gov. Zulum.
He noted that some of the local governments were captured under Gov. Zulum due to his frantic effort in seeing to the end of the insurgency.
‘When we came in 2015 you know how the situation was in the North East, only three local governments or so in Borno are not occupied by Boko Haram.
‘Go and ask the Governor of Borno what is the situation now, because everybody in the country knows he is a workaholic and a trustworthy person,’ the president said in the interview conducted in Hausa Language.
Buhari has also condemned the terrorists’ ideology of fighting in the name of Islam, noting that it is false.
‘You do not do harm to innocent people and call the name of God, you cannot kill someone without following the teaching of the law.
‘If Nigerians want to do justice to this administration, when we came into power, what is the state of the nation, especially in the North East like I mentioned earlier,’ he added.
According to him, the insecurity he inherited, as well as those that sprang up after he assumed power, have also slowed the country’s economic growth.
