Buhari: It’s like we are starting all over again
President Muhammadu Buhari says the situation in the country makes it appear as though Nigeria is starting all over again.
According to Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, Buhari said this while receiving Nasser Bourita, a special envoy of King Mohammed VI of Morocco, at the presidential villa, Abuja.
“For us in Nigeria, it is like starting all over again. There was a time we had so much money and took things for granted. But with the fall in the international price of oil, we are now managing,” he said.
Buhari said there was a time in the history of the country that there was so much money that successive governments took things for granted.
The president added that he was in a hurry to see projects take off in the agricultural sector to enhance food security and create jobs for teeming unemployed youths.
He welcomed the plan by Morocco to establish a fertilizer plant in Nigeria, which would not only serve the country, but the entire West African sub-region.
The envoy, who is also minister delegate for foreign affairs and cooperation, said his country had developed strategy to deal with religious extremism, and had largely been successful in fighting terrorism.
Reminds you about the experience of Spain and Portugal when they first started they squandered the wealth at their disposal before they know what was happening! Yes, Nigeria went to pay for Bokina-faso civil servants unpaid workers and willed Bakassi to Cameroon against the rights of the Nigerians and her people are now in IDPs in Cross River and Akwa-Ibom State languishing in total contrast to the provisions and good spirit of the AU. Tells you the kind of leadership you have for Nigeria – all visionary! Yes, as if we are staring or about starting again indeed, and they are all contributory to the mistakes and wrong decision! – tells you about the mischievous and deficiencies about the leadership even at that the question is popped – Are they doing it right even now, folks? You give the right solution that can help but because they – the group, feels they got the opportunity now, they cast you solutions aside and they could do what they like with your commonwealth at end of the day we all return to the same problem!
I am suggesting that, to get the right leadership thinking for Nigeria they should have a National Orientation program for would-be-leaders for Nigeria so that as they all come out of the training, will be thinking the right way for the country – i. e. as Nigerian nationalist not as Nigerian tribes/ religious-men/women!