President Muhammadu Buhari says
he has resolved to stop complaining about the problems his administration
inherited when it came into office.
Buhari said he “asked for it” by
relentlessly vying for office four times before emerging president in 2015.
He made the comments while
speaking with a cross-section of Nigerians in Poland on the sidelines of the
global summit on Climate Change.
The president said: “We inherited
so many problems. Actually, I have said I will not complain because I asked for
it. I tried to become President three times and I lost, but I was lucky the
fourth time, I became one, so I can’t complain”
“Who asked me to do it again?
Three times I ended up in the Supreme Court. The third time, I said, ‘God dey’
and the fourth time, God and technology, using the permanent voter card and the
card readers, they couldn’t rig the elections; so I won.”
Speaking on the security
situation in the country, Buhari said significant progress has been made in the
war against insurgency.
He said Boko Haram insurgents
have been able to launch attacks in recent months because “they know the area
more than the soldiers”.
Buhari said: “Those in the
north-east will tell you that before we came, the so-called Boko Haram used to
hold about 17 local governments. Now, physically, they are not holding any
local government. So they have resorted to real guerilla tactics of hit and
run.
“They mobilise, hit targets and
then disappear again because they know the area more than the soldiers that are
defending them. Our soldiers are from Port Harcourt, Lagos, Sokoto, but they
are locally there and know the terrain more than the soldiers.”
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