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Nigeria Better Than We Met It In 2015 – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari says his five-year-old administration has brought Nigeria to a better position since he assumed office in May 2015.
He also tasked the Nigerian elite to be fair in their critique of his administration.
Buhari said this upon receiving the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, Rev. Yakubu Pam.
He painted a bad picture of the economy, infrastructure as well as security situation in the North-east as at the time he became president on May 29, 2015.
He said, “Those criticising the administration should be fair in terms of reflecting on where we were before we came, where we are now and what resources are available to us and what we have done with the limited resources.
“We had to struggle paying debts, investing in road repairs and rebuilding, to revamp the rail and try to get power. This is what I hope the elite, when they want to criticise will use to compare notes.”
On the security situation especially in the North-east, the president pointedly asked: “What was the situation when we came? Try and ask people from Borno or from Adamawa for that matter and Yobe. What was the condition before we came and what is the condition now?”
Buhari added that although there were still some security skirmishes in the North-east but the situation had since improved.
He said: “Still, there are problems in Borno and Yobe, there are occasional Boko Haram problems, but they know the difference because a lot of them moved out of their states and moved to Kaduna, Kano and here (in Abuja). We were not spared of the attacks at a time. The government is doing its best and I hope that eventually, our best will be good enough.”
The president also assured Nigerians that the welfare of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) was paramount on the agenda of government.
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