President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the split
within the Ohanaeze Igbo socio-cultural group over its reported
endorsement of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party, did not surprise him.
He said this at a meeting with a select group of
South-east leaders on Friday, at the State House, Abuja, President Buhari said
that the moment the so-called resolution was announced, he got calls from
well-meaning leaders from the region asking him to disregard it as it was
without any substance.
According to him, “From that moment, I knew that
the resolution would not stand, and alas, there it was.”
Buhari also noted that his party, the All
Progressives Congress, got it right from the very beginning that the major
problems facing the country were mainly on security, corruption and the
economy.
“We have done so much. Given the chance, we will do
more. Given every chance, we will tell Nigerians where we were in 2015
and what we have achieved up to now.
“We will not get tired of speaking about the golden
opportunity Nigeria lost during 16 years of the PDP. We earned money,
which we didn’t use,” he said.
“The state of infrastructure we inherited was
terrible – no roads, the railway was killed and power. They lacked
conscience because anybody with conscience will not do what they did. We
will report them to Nigerians. Let anybody lead this country but not the
PDP. They were so reckless with the resources of the country,” the
President said.
“If you ruin the economy, send your children abroad
to get education, won’t they come back?” he asked, adding: “I said it 30 years ago
that this is the only country we have. We must stay here and salvage it
together.”
The leaders of the delegation, Engineer Emeka
Ekwuosa and the National Chairman of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Chief
Chekwas Okorie, informed President Buhari that the Igbos and South-easterners
generally understand the good things he is doing for Nigeria which they said,
had unfortunately been misunderstood.
They promised to mobilise support for him in the
south-east, saying that his re-election will be a national consensus.
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