Garba Shehu, presidential
spokesman, says various world leaders “queuing” to meet with President
Muhammadu Buhari shows the president is on the right course.
Shehu said this on Saturday while
reacting to a derogatory comment about Buhari credited to US President Donald
Trump.
According to a report by
Financial Times, the US president reportedly told his aides that he never
wanted to meet someone as lifeless as Buhari again.
Speaking when the president
arrived in China for the 7th summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
(FOCAC), Shehu reiterated that the presidency is not worried about the said
comment.
He said visits of British Prime
Minister Theresa May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Nigeria show there
is something about the president that world leaders admire.
“As a policy, we said that we are
not going to answer the American President,” he said.
“However, the fact that the
entire world and world leaders are queuing up to meet President Muhammadu
Buhari, is an indication that there is something about president Buhari, there
is something about the Nigeria he now leads, that the world likes.”
Shehu said some world leaders
“did not want to meet” with Nigerian leaders in the past.
“I think that Nigerians
themselves should better look at this from this positive point of view, as a
major development,” he said.
“We had situations in the country
in the past where key world leaders didn’t want to meet our own leaders, all of
that has changed in the last three years.”
On what is expected of the
president’s trip to China, he said: “You know that from the last summit in
South Africa, the Chinese financing of projects in Nigeria has more than
doubled under President Muhammadu Buhari and so therefore, we expect that if
the same momentum is maintained, we hope that going forward, all of the
projects that are outstanding like the Kaduna-Kano rail project, the coastal
rail scheme, Mambilla power project, the second phase of the Nnamdi Azikiwe
International Airport expansion project, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja/ Kano and
all of these projects, they will move more steadily and thankfully, we have
virtually everyone who matters on our own side.
“So, we hope that whatever is
left, the dotted lines will be signed, and we are hoping that we will take back
with us, quite a number of schemes that will take Nigeria forward.”
After blasting him,the tired business deals and left
ReplyDeleteWhy wouldn’t the world leaders que to met a clueless man, you could swindle so easily?
ReplyDeleteLet them go and try it with the Ghanaian leader for instance.