Former President Muhammadu Buhari has been busy with farming activities in Daura, Katsina State, since leaving office 100 days ago.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Garba Shehu, the media aide to Buhari, in a statement said the former president has been going to the farm four days a week and is pleased with how the crops and animals are doing.
Shehu also said that Buhari has been receiving visitors from all over the country, including party faithful.
To manage the number of visitors, Buhari has a weekly schedule of appointments. However, Shehu said that many people still travel to Daura to see him without an appointment.
Buhari has expressed surprise that the removal of fuel subsidy has not reduced the number of visitors. He said that he had hoped that the higher cost of transportation would make it more difficult for people to travel to see him, but that people are now grouping together and sharing the cost of buses to Daura.
Despite the high number of visitors, Buhari is said to be enjoying his retirement and is looking forward to spending more time with his family and tending to his farm.
He said, “This week, President Muhammadu Buhari clocked 100 days away from office after completing two terms of four years each as President of Nigeria.
“He 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. He 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.
“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”, the statement added.
