Former American Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Walter Carrington has said that American government and world leaders have expressed confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari because he has set an example of financial transparency in Nigeria.
Carrington said this delivering a lecture titled Nigeria and the future of the Black World, at the First Eminent Lecture Series of the University of Benin, UNIBEN.
He said “As a private citizen Buhari lived modestly and since taking on the duties of president, he has set a refreshing example of financial transparency which all public officials should and must emulate.
“I believe that having been elected democratically as a civilian president, President Buhari will fulfil the third of Abraham Lincoln’s prepositional triad making his a government for the people, a government which cares more for the welfare of the poor majority and disadvantaged than for the unjust enrichment of the privileged few and their enablers who too often in the past have looted the national treasury.”
He also lamented that Nigeria has not fully explored her rich potentials.
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