Speaking at a meeting with a select group of South-east leaders on Friday, at the State House, Abuja, President Buhari said that the moment the so-called resolution was announced, he got calls from well-meaning leaders from the region asking him to disregard it as it was without any substance.
According to him, “From
that moment, I knew that the resolution would not stand, and alas, there it
was.”
President Buhari said that
his party, the All Progressives Congress, got it right from the very beginning
and that the major problems facing the country were mainly on security,
corruption and the economy.
“We have done so much.
Given the chance, we will do more. Given every chance, we will tell Nigerians
where we were in 2015 and what we have achieved up to now.
“We will not get tired of
speaking about the golden opportunity Nigeria lost during 16 years of the PDP.
We earned money, which we didn’t use,” he said.
“The state of
infrastructure we inherited was terrible – no roads, the railway was killed and
power. They lacked conscience because anybody with conscience will not do what
they did. We will report them to Nigerians. Let anybody lead this country but
not the PDP. They were so reckless with the resources of the country,” the
President said.
“If you ruin the economy,
send your children abroad to get education, won’t they come back?” he asked,
adding: “I said it 30 years ago that this is the only country we have. We must
stay here and salvage it together.”
The leaders of the
delegation, Emeka Ekwuosa, and the National Chairman of the United Progressive
Party (UPP), Chekwas Okorie, informed President Buhari that the Igbos and
South-easterners generally understood the good things he was doing for Nigeria
which they said, had unfortunately been misunderstood.
They promised to mobilise
support for him in the south-east, saying that his re-election will be a
national consensus.
GARBA SHEHU
Senior Special Assistant to
President
(Media & Publicity)
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