Press Release: President Buhari Assures Nigerians: Your Confidence In Us Will Not Be Abused

“We will do our best to justify your trust in us, and that
confidence won’t be abused,” President Muhammadu
Buhari has assured Nigerians.
The President spoke in London Sunday while receiving
the Buhari Diaspora Support Organization, led by Mr
Charles Efe Sylvester.
“I am happy that people like you are here, on your own,
defending the country. You have shown courage and
sacrifice. I assure you that your confidence in us won’t
be abused, we will do our best to justify it,” President
Buhari said.
He noted that Nigeria was gifted with tremendous
human and natural resources, but regretted that
“failure of some of the leadership we had in the past
led to our not being able to capitalize on resources to
improve the lot of the people.”
Saying wicked people plundered the country, “and kept
Nigerians poor,” the President added that looking at the
condition in which the current administration met the
country, without savings and the economy badly
vandalized, “we have not done too badly.”
President Buhari said the damage done to the Nigerian
economy in the years of plunder was massive, and that
government was doing its best to recover some of the
loot, but noted that it was impossible to identify and
recover all.
“If they had used 50% of the money we made, when oil
prices went as high as $143 dollars per barrel, and
stabilized at $100 dollars with production at 2.1 million
barrels per day for many years, Nigerians would have
minded their businesses. You could almost grow food
on our roads, as they were abandoned. The stealing
was so much, and they were so inept that they could
not even cover the stealing properly. I wonder how all
those things could have happened to our country.” the
President said.
He commended the Buhari Diaspora Support
Organization for deciding to identify with the country,
“when you could have stayed here, and being
comfortable.”
The Coordinator of the organization, Mr Sylvester, said
the group was happy with the achievements of the
Buhari administration so far, noting:
“You met a difficult situation, but you have overcome
most of them. We are happy with the agriculture
revolution, the ease of doing business, the anti-
corruption war, the employment of youths through the
N-Power programme, and the blockage of leakages in
the public sector through the Treasury Single Account
(TSA).
“We are proud of the speed with which you recovered
the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls. It shows you as a
worthy general. We are happy that you have declared
for 2019. Majority of Nigerians are happy, but agents
of corruption and darkness are unhappy. The same
God, who healed you when you were ill, will grant you
victory in the 2019 elections. You are a General who
does not fear combat, either with Generals or non-
Generals. We declare our love and support for you. You
are fixing the faulty foundations of our country and
second term is when you will build the enduring
structure.”
Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity)
April 15, 2018