 As the cotton draws on the AT administration of President Muhammad Buhari, reactions have been trailing his impact on economy, security, and fight against corruption and observing self-the-rule of law. In this special report, Messi Bopu x-rays how far the outgoing administration has fed in the period on the review. On May 29, President Muhammad Buhari hands over to another hemsman. The president elects Bolotinibu to take the wheels of office. As the 16th president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a fit president since the beginning of the Fourth Republic in 1999. Now while Nigerians are with the start of fresh dispensation and the grand swell of diverse opinions have shaped conversations about Buhari's eight years administration from 2015 to 2023. Whatever saving we will make from sovereign corruption, we will quickly put in farming and mining. Now in 2014, Buhari's campaign promises were premised on three key areas, fighting insecurity, corruption and stabilizing the economy. In the aspect of insecurity to the credit of this administration, while Boko Haram has been degraded in the North Eastern state, the emergence of bandits in the North West and killer headsmen in North Central and iPop in the South East have heightened tension. This current administration did meet insecurity on the ground when they assumed office, including the Boko Haram insurgency which gained momentum between 2014 and 2017. The administration did make a lot of significant investments in military procurements and that has assisted the Niger military in making some pretty good progress in the North East. They're making progress against the insurgency. Now another area of success for the current administration has been in the Niger Delta militancy and piracy off the coast of the Gulf of Guinea. Now that around 2016-2017 there was a bit of a resurgence. A lot of groups targeting oil infrastructure engaged in Kinnah for ransom. Now the situation has improved quite a bit in the maritime space through government interventions, negotiations, the amnesty program, but that area and that region still remains fragile as you know. In the aspect of tackling corruption, President Buhari's greatest asset, according to some commentators, has been his integrity and incorruptibility. Now whether these has translated to the diminishing of corruption in Nigeria is a question on the minds of several Nigerians. For some, corruption is blossomed under his nose and some members of his cabinet were even fingered in a multi-billion corruption saga. The corruption charge against the former minister of power, Saleh Maman, is one among many. While the anti-agency EFCC and its sister agency, ICPC, have been allowed to operate without hindrance, the pardon granted to former Plotu and Tarabah state governors. Darie and Ymer, over embezzlement of government funds, shocked Nigerians and probably mocked the administrator's work against corruption. The very key, very basic key indexes that work can use to judge whether this administration for the past eight years or so have succeeded against corruption. Key among them is transparency and accountability, particularly in the aspect of income and expenditure of governments. That has not played out very well. For Serap, for instance, this year alone, we've sent out more than 25 freedom of information requests to various ministers, departments and agencies, including the presidency itself. The return rate is less than 9 percent, while the positive response rate is barely 2 percent. And that means that Nigerians do not have access to critical information about governance. A good case in point is the abacha loot. We've had, like, two tranches of abacha loot returned under this administration. We do not have details of how those funds have been spent. So what are the guarantees that they've not ended up in private pockets? The 100 billion yearly is a contribution to the 1 trillion Naira social housing fund. This same fund will enable us to provide inexpensive mortgages for hundreds of thousands across the country who want to own homes of their own. In spite of the various policy and other social investment programs, Nigeria has continued to be ranked high in poverty, as the multi-dimensional poverty index report placed 133 million Nigerians below the poverty line. The unemployment rate is at an all-time high of 41 percent, while inflation rate is over 22 percent. In addition, the foreign and domestic debts incurred by Buhari's administration have become a huge burden, which has made the debt management office and the budget office cry out over its danger. The NBS just released an inflation report, and we have done a bit further upwards to 22.2 percent from 22.04, as had the last report. We're trending in the mid-20s on inflation when this administration started inflation on single digits, so that gives you perspective. So things have gotten significantly worse, and there are people who will tell you that, in fact, what the NBS is reporting as inflation is underreported because the basket of prices, the components within the basket that they use, has not been updated and is not comprehensive enough. So inflation is actually far worse than the 22 percent that has been reported. If you look at exchange rates, the story is out there for everybody to see. If you look at an overall assessment of the economy, it's difficult to find wins. There have been some measures and policies that the government has put in place towards driving economic development and economic growth. It will take time for us to see some of those measures come to fruition. There are some master plans, the sugar master plan, the national development master plan, NDMP. They've done a second version recently, I think at the beginning of this year, that is supposed to position similar to the vision 2020. So they've done a revision of those types of documents. It's an update on the ERGP that they came out with after COVID. Those plans are very good documents. If you look at them, they're well thought through, the basis of the assumptions and all of that that are contained there in are really good, but the implementation has been poor. And this has always been the problem that we've had as a country. President Buhari's legacy continues to generate heated debates among citizens. Infrastructure wise, I think the government has done its best, they've really tried. Corruption is a journey that still needs to be taken a little bit further. He promised us a lot that he's going to stop Boko Haram. Those Chebos girls, he's going to return them. He'll return them. To me, in economic aspects, to be honest, we are lacking behind. Like, this government really failed us. From there to Kaduna, they are facing a lot of insecurity issues. And all is going to, from there down to Benway State. Talking about insecurity, they have not been able to do anything at all. Despite the fact that the outgoing president is a retired military officer, yet they cannot tackle the issue of insecurity. Now, while some pundits believe that the Buhari's administration may not have imparted positively on Nigerians, others have the opinion that it might just not be fair to write about his legacy just yet, as his policies that believe have a long term implication on the economy. And it would definitely help to solve the lingering challenges. Merci e Boko for plus TV Africa.