…… says APC is all about effectively managing Nigeria
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his desire to have a working relationship with Europe, the United States and neighbouring countries in tackling the unemployment and security problems confronting the country.
Buhari gave the indication on Friday in his remarks at the inauguration Gala Night held at the Banquet hall of the Presidential Villa.
He said his administration would focus on agriculture and mining to engage the unemployed youths who form more than 60 per cent of the population.
He said: “I ask Nigerians to please bear with us. “A lot of damage has been done.”
Buhari said he lost elections the last three times he contested and had gone to the tribunal with the help of Nigerians, but that he was happy that the will of Nigerians made his victory possible this time around.
He said Nigeria, being a populous country, if things went wrong in the country, they would go wrong in Africa because the continent could not manage any refugee crisis from Nigeria.
He said when he consulted the foreign partners and confronted them with the refugee scenario, it pricked their consciences and they assisted with technology to enable a successful vote count in the last elections.
Buhari insisted that previous election results were written in private homes and announced on the radio and that getting the courts to reverse them was difficult.
He said Nigeria’s friends in Europe and US had spoken to him personally and had identified security as the major challenge facing the country.
He said: “Nigeria has to be well secured and efficiently managed. This is what the All Progressives Congress is all about.
“This was why the legacy parties made the sacrifice of jettisoning their personal ambitions, tried to come together and took the bull by the horn and therefore brought it down and slaughtered it literally.”
He said the party in power had realised its problems and made the sacrifice.
Buhari said: “Nigerians pray a lot.
“We need to even pray the more for luck so that expectations our people have, especially the youths, would be met.”
He said the unemployment level was the “keg of gunpowder we are sitting on” and the administration had resolved to secure Nigeria as soon as possible.
He thanked Nigeria’s neighbours for helping the country to fight insurgency.
Buhari added that his administration would articulate the nation’s requirements after studying the handover notes from the past administration then consult the immediate neighbours, Europe and US for possible assistance.
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