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Don’t Expect Miracles When I Tackle Boko Haram – Buhari Tells Nigerians by statrata(m): 12:41am On Apr 02, 2015
In one of his first full interviews as President-elect,
Gen. Muhammudu Buhari discusses how he plans
to tackle Boko Haram while also warning Nigerians
not to expect a miracle when his administration
tackles the menace.
The interview which was conducted by the BBC’s
Peter okwoche questions about the gesture of
President Goodluck Jonathan in congratulating
him on his victory and his thoughts about Boko
Haram were thrown at the General.
In the interview the General says he feels fulfilled in
acheiving his goal after four attempts in becoming
president (2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015).
the interviewer asked: “were you surprised when
President Goodluck Jonathan called you to
concede defeat and say congratulations because
thats a new thing here in Nigeria”?
Buhari replied: “I am not surprised because he
(Jonathan) has been talking to international
community; United States especially Britain and I
think he is respectful of those countries and their
leadership but it was something extraordinary thaty
as commander in Chief and President that he
should allow the law to take its course, let the
Nigerian election be conducted according to law.
That is all they asked him”
He added; ” he signed an undertaking and I think
he did his best”
When asked about how he would go about fulfilling
his promises to Nigerians, Buhari replied; “I
wouldn’t have made the promises if I don’t know
how to go about it. We identified a number of
problems that is insecurity in the country which
everybody knows; the lack of employment which is
the situation of the economy generally by
corruption and corruption itself”
“This three fundamental problems, Nigerians know
it and we are asking Nigerians for their cooperation
and they should’t expect miracles to happen a
couple of months later because the situation took
so many years which is 16 years of the ruling
party’s rule of this country”.

He also expressed believe that Nigerians will give he
and his administration the opportunities to do what
they can.
Buhari was asked what tactics his adminstration
will use to tackle Boko Haram; “peaceful
negotiations or hitting them hard” in which he
asked “Hitting them with what?
He continued: “Boko Haram by the 14th
of February at the elections that was postponed,
were according to government calculations were in
charge of fourteen local governments. These are 14
local governments out of 774 local governments.
“If for five, six years the law enforcement agencies
including the military could not secure fourteen
local governments out of 774, how can I promise
miracles when i come?”
He added: “But with the cooperation of our
neigbours; Cameroon, Niger, Chad and the
international community and the commitment we
are going to get from the military, it will take us a
much shorter time to deal with them”
When told his party members are as corrupt as
those he plans to fight against and asked if he
would corruption to its fullest, Buhari said “I hope
you (the interviewer) and Nigerians will give me the
opportunity to see whether me effort will be good
enough or not”
Buhari reveals it all in one of his first
interviews as President elect discussing
how he will take down Boko Haram and
corruption
Re: Don’t Expect Miracles When I Tackle Boko Haram – Buhari Tells Nigerians by Nobody: 12:57am On Apr 02, 2015
Don't bother pretending baba ..i know within 3months they would go back to where you brought them from.

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