LEAVE, RELOCATE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY – PRES. BUHARI LASH OUT AT NIGERIANS

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said any Nigeria who has another country to relocate to is free to do so.

According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President who spoke while addressing Niger Delta stakeholders at the Presidential Villa, Abuja was quoted as saying:

We are determined to make life comfortable and affordable to all Nigerians. If anybody has a country to go to, let him go, we will stay here and salvage our country.

Pres. Buhari was said to have also told the leaders of the Niger Delta that they had more to do than anyone else to bring peace to the region, given the influence they have on militant groups just as he expressed the determination of his administration to stay focused on its key campaign promises of securing the country, fighting corruption and creating jobs through the improvement of the economy.

He said peace, security, investment and prosperity are linked together, adding that “if we give peace a chance, investors will come here to invest. Nobody will invest in an insecure environment.”

The president said the problems his administration met on ground were many, as illustrated in the collapse of oil prices, inability of states to pay salaries, absence of savings to fall back and having to deal with an elite who didn’t seem to care.

All these, he said, made his government to conclude that, “life as usual is no longer affordable.”