Garba Shehu, former media aide to President Muhammad Buhari, has criticized a critic of his former boss, alleging that the critic, who served as a military governor in one of the northern states, used government funds to purchase his underwear.

Shehu emphasized that while Buhari’s presidency made some decisions that might have been perceived as wrong, the intentions behind those decisions were always aimed at improving Nigeria.

He further reminded critics that the previous administration took significant steps to combat corruption, including the implementation of measures like the Treasury Single Account (TSA) and the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

“We have seen massive positive changes in the last eight years but as they say, the one who is pretending to be asleep is harder to wake up than the one who is actually sleeping,” Shehu said, insisting that Buhari achieved massively in his eight years. 

“A certain Buhari ‘critic’ who served as a military governor in one of the Northern states, even his underwear was bought from government coffers.

“When they came in, they freed thieves, robbers and receivers of stolen goods and even gave them a working capital!

“Within a few weeks, crime returned to Kaduna, and yes, the other places and he has the effrontery to speak as he did. This society has no use for such squalid nonsense!

“How many of these people do you think were happy when President Buhari said ‘no more free money?’

“Buhari said money in the National Security Agencies is for security. Lazy men and women who can’t work cannot just walk in and walk out of that place with bags stuffed with money in a free-for-all.”