'He Was Too Permissive' - Femi Adesina Opens Up On Buhari's Weaknesses

Adesina recalled instances from their time in office, when Buhari sometimes entertained critics at his table hours after they had insulted him on television.He said, "Talking of weakness, I think it is being too permissive. You would see people on talk shows in the morning abusing Buhari, and you would get to his house in the evening and you would see those same people at the dinner table with him. He was too permissive, and that was why maybe some of his aides and some of his appointees rather took advantage of that.

He was really, really permissive without being a weakling, but he was permissive.ÔÇØAdesina defended Buhari's often-criticised slow governance style, insisting the former president was deliberate and principled in his pace.He added, "He himself responded to that. He said, they call me Baba Go Slow. He said, yes, I will move slowly, but I will do the right thing.

He said, order is better than speed. That was one quotation I picked from one of his speeches. Order is better than speed.

You don't speed so much and you jumble up everything. He believed that order was better than speed. So even when he was military head of state, he always said it.

Yes, we will be slow, but we will be steady.ÔÇØ