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Nigerian Elite Insensitive To My Achievements – Buhari

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BEVERLY HILLS, January 31, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday, accused Nigerian elite of being insensitive to his achievements, despite all the strides made by his administration.

The President said, despite the glaring successes recorded by his administration, the Nigerian elite see nothing good in his government but were ever ready to offer outright criticism.

Buhari, who spoke in his home town, Daura, Katsina state while hosting the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors after revalidating his party membership, said the “Nigerian elite are not interested in rating the competence but they are interested in harassing us despite all the efforts we are making.”

He expressed concern that the teeming elite had resolved not to see anything good in his administration in repositioning the country despite the fall in revenue.

He, therefore, pleaded with the elite to be fair in their assessment of his performance by taking cognizance of the state of the country’s finances when he took over power in May, 2015.

His words: “The problem is that I will like, especially the elite, to please be reflective. When we came, where we were, the resources available from then and the condition of the infrastructure. I was contrived to go over it several times to tell Nigerians that between 1999 and 2014, let them check with the NNPC, let them check with the Governor of Central Bank. The daily production was 2.4 million barrels per day and the average cost was a hundred American dollars per barrel.

“So for these years, daily Nigeria would earn having 2.4m times 100 dollars everyday. But look at the condition of infrastructure, you know this better than I do. I know I went to every local government of the country in my three consecutive attempts to become the President. You know the road more than I do. You know the condition of the rail, the railway was dead. Now look at it everywhere we go, what did they do with all these monies?

“When we took over in this administration, production went down to about half a million barrels per day, the price collapsed. We had to do what is called a bailout, wherever we got the money from. Upon all the money from 1999 to 2014, we have to give you money from the Centre to pay salaries.”

The President urged the APC governors who are in charge of their constituencies to make efforts to convince the elite to give his administration the due relevance and respect it deserves, insisting that it is working so hard with limited resources.

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