President Muhammadu Buhari has slammed Nigeria’s elite for what he thinks is their complicity in the mismanagement of the country. He said this while meeting with Nigerians in diaspora in the United States. Read the press release by the presidency next…

PRESIDENT BUHARI ASSURES NIGERIANS IN DIASPORA: IF I WIN THE NEXT ELECTION, I’LL LEAVE SOME DIFFERENCE IN THAT OFFICE

President Muhammadu Buhari told Nigerians living in America that if he won the 2019 election, and he spent another four years in office, “I will leave some difference in that office.”

Meeting with the Nigerian community in the United States of America Thursday on the margins of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York, the President regretted that the elite allowed Nigeria to be mismanaged for 16 years of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rule, without as much as raising a voice in consternation.

“They didn’t say a word,” President Buhari declared. “Under the PTF (Petroleum Trust Fund, of which he was Chairman), we did roads from Lagos to Abuja, to Onitsha, to Port Harcourt. Since then, the roads were not done, between 1999 and 2015, yet the elite did not say a word.

“I was called Baba Go Slow. Those who were going fast, where did they get to?

“In 1983, military officers gathered, and made me Head of State. I packed the politicians into jail, told them they were guilty until they could prove their innocence. We seized what they had looted, but after I myself was put in detention, the politicians were given back what they had looted. How many elite complained about that?

“Three times I contested elections; three times I went to court after the elections were rigged against me. No justice, but I said ‘God dey.’

“It was mainly the ordinary people that stood by me. That is why I am always conscious of them. They are my constituency. Even pregnant women on the queue would fall into labour, go to have their babies, and still come back to vote for me. I will keep doing my best for the country.”

The diaspora Nigerians, in their scores, are top flight professionals, drawn from fields like medicine, engineering, sports, the arts, investment, academia, politics, agriculture, transport, education, publishing, and many others. Most expressed the wish to come back home, and contribute to the change making a headway in Nigeria. To which the President replied:

“You are contributing to this great country (America). If you want to help back home, invest in education in your constituencies. If you educate people, they won’t then accept nonsense from anybody.”

President Buhari said the administration he leads has by and large kept faith with its three key campaign promises; to secure the country, revive the economy and fight corruption.

“I’ve tried to do my best since I came,” he stressed, adding: “Security-wise, we are better. Boko Haram still conducts cowardly attacks, but the insurgency is not the same as it used to be. They are terrorists, and have nothing to do with religion. We will continue to deal with them. Ask people in the North-east, especially in Borno State, they will tell you they can sleep with two eyes closed now.”

The parley was put together by Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora Matters, and the Nigerian professionals were drawn from different parts of the United States and Canada. Representatives of USA chapters of Nigerians in the Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) also presented awards to President Buhari in appreciation of his performance, urging him to do more.

Source: President Buhari Slams Elite for Allowing Nigeria Get ‘Mismanaged for 16 Years’

“In 1983, military officers gathered, and made me Head of State.I packed the politicians into jail, told them they were guilty until they could prove their innocence.

We seized what they had looted, but after I myself was put in detention, the politicians were given back what they had looted. How many elite complained about that?

Buhari is a confirmed mad man & hypocrite.A man with a well documented record of being active participant in the:
-July 29th 1966 Northern counter-coup in Ikeja cantoment.
-July 29th 1975 Middle cadre officers coup against Gen.Yakubu Gowon in Dodan Barracks
-Dec.31st.1983 Military Coup alongside IBB, Abacha, etc against Shehu Shagari in talking this shit

Buhari the lifeless hypocrite

We are also "slamming" the elite for allowing thousands of people get slaughtered while you protect and make excuses for the murderers.

He is a mad man, sixteen years of PDP brought unprecedented economic growth to Nigeria whilst he brought recession and poverty. Useless lifeless dunce.

Wait ooo.. Is this guy okay? No wonder you were called a lifeless presidio by one of the west guy..

I suppose that Nigeria didn't exist before 1999, or it was managed superbly pre-1999 by Buharis' constituency...the army!?

He has been contributing to that mismanagement so please can it, 80% of his buddies, party members and appointees were part of these "elites".

For those who don't know most of the monies being returned from Switzerland were siphoned via the Petroleum Trust Fund(PTF) which was run by Mr. integrity under Saint Abacha's reign of impunity.

What age is Nigeria? Papa go home. This pattern of talk is outdated.

The only hope Buhari have is this Aboki INEC

You can only dwell on the past 16 years since you have nothing to show since you came into power

PTF? don't shake that table o... in your own best interest.

The blame game has shifted from PDP to the elites, and during those period, Buhari was not an elite, he was a pauper

Abeg this man shld shut up

Everyday some folks wake up in the morning and thank the Lord for this man.
Sadly those people are in the Far East.

He is an asset only to China.
Because he is successfully mortgaging this country to them through unrepayable loans.

Voting him out in 2019 is not about party affiliations. It's just a proof of responsibility to your own self.

Someone must go back to Daura if we have to leave Egypt.

Buhari is officially mad

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Lol

Slams ke. So Mr President is not aware that the democracy we have in the current 4th republic was fought and won for by some of these guys when he our dear president was busy being a minister in a dictator's government.

If I should ask, can someone please tell me what Mr. President did as one of the leading elites during the same era he's talking about.

Mtweetch! Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

The problem is not even the elite it's a case of we the citizens to have allowed this crooks and cons artists to have stolen our collective wealth

No other definition for the word 'hypocrisy' other than buhari.

This man na cow nau,una think say him get sense before,"living in the past man".

luckyogor:
This man na cow nau,una think say him get sense before,"living in the past man".

Your father

This man again, i taught i said i don't want to hear him talk again .

I just bought bag of rice for #16,000 last week, really so annoying. I wonder how much it will be sold from November

CROWNWEALTH019:
Buhari is officially mad

And you are normal?


smh

Pretender..
Nigeria was not mismanaged for jus 16yrs but for over 50yrs.
And he took his turn in the mismanagement too.
He sent Nigeria into recession the first time as head of state and secondly as a president.

So give up that pretence already and Bleep off to Daura..

NTAland.....Buhari went to toilet-fp
Yusuf buy icecream - FP
Just change the name to NTA news

this old fool has started again with blame.....

HardMirror:
Abeg this man shld shut up

Go and shut it up

Mumu!

Always pretending to be a saint mtcheeeeeeew

Taaa


What this government have stolen is more than the combination of what the other administrations have stolen and they still brag about it.

Get your rmb @ #48/rmb

The millions of Nigeria who voted buhari 2015 are worst than him