President Muhammadu Buhari says
national development is usually the first casualty when a country is
politically unstable.
The President made the
declaration Wednesday while receiving President Adama Barrow of The Gambia at
the State House, Abuja.
“The best route to national
development is stability. When a country is not stable, you spend most of your
financial resources on security.
“That is the money that should
have gone into education, infrastructure, and generating employment for the
people, particularly youths,” Buhari said.
He congratulated President Barrow
for stabilizing The Gambia after his emergence, following the impasse caused by
his immediate predecessor, Yahya Jammeh, who initially refused to vacate
office, after losing the presidential election in December, 2016.
The Gambian President thanked
President Buhari for the role Nigeria played in helping his country return to
the path of constitutional democracy.
He also congratulated the
Nigerian President on his emergence as the new Chairman of ECOWAS, noting that
he was the first foreign leader to visit Abuja after the development.
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