Politics
Japa: Nothing wrong with Nigerians leaving for greater nations – Femi Adesina claims
- Femi Adesina believes that Buhari will be leaving behind a safer nation
- He insisted that nothing wrong with Nigerians leaving for greener pasture
- Femi Adesina believed that there are Nigerians who will never leave this country no matter how things are
Presidential aide Femi Adesina has said that there is nothing wrong with Nigerians wanting to leave the country for greener pastures.
Adesina made this statement when discussing how the present administration had performed since taking office on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. He maintained that the widespread movement of brilliant young Nigerians abroad, now known as Japa, was not the fault of the Buhari administration.
“If you think migrating regularly is good for you, all well and good. By all means, go. But you can’t now say because people are leaving then, it is a sign that something is fundamentally wrong,” he stressed.
Adesina asserted that some Nigerians will never emigrate, despite the fact that they have always done so, even before the current administration.
“You said 70,000 people left, what average is that out of over 200 million Nigerians?
“There are Nigerians who will never leave this country no matter how things are. For every person that leaves, there are 100 people that want to stay,” he stressed.
Speaking about the massive oil theft in the country, Adesina said everyone indicted would be prosecuted as soon as a prima facie case is established against them.
“One thing this administration will not do is to begin to name people carelessly and recklessly,” he added.
More so, President Muhammadu Buhari’s adviser Femi Adesina thinks his boss has done enough to leave behind a safer country.
Banditry and kidnapping for ransom are among the most frequent crimes committed in Nigeria, which has been dealing with a variety of security issues in every region of the nation.
But according to Adesina, things are far better now than they were in 2015 when his principal assumed control.
“No doubt about it. He would leave a safer country. When he came in 2015, you could not be sure Nigeria would exist in the next one month. As of 2015, what was happening was that nobody could confidently say that Nigeria would be on the map in the following next week, month or year. But we saw that he came and took the battle to the insurgency,” he said while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
“When he came, the insurgency was the main thing and he took the battle to them. Then, it became hydra-headed – banditry, kidnapping for ransom, cultism, and separatist agitations joined. How many challenges can one administration really confront? That’s the issue with the Buhari administration. From day one till now, it was from one challenge to the other.”
He insisted that despite these and the fact that his administration is slated to end next year, the problems had been greatly reduced and that things will end well.
“But we also see some calm in the country now. You can’t compare what we have today with what we had six months ago or one year ago. Six months is enough time to finish off what is on the ground.”
Adesina admitted, however, that one administration cannot fully tackle the country’s security challenges and wants the next government to continue from where President Buhari would stop.
“Security would always be a continuum,” he said, noting that even the world’s superpowers are battling one issue or the other.
“You would never get to a time you would sit back and say ‘We are all sound, safe and secure, no need to be alert again’. No, you would never get to that point,” Adesina added.