President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday
urged African leaders to place the interests
of their countries above narrow personal
interests.











He gave the charge while chairing the
African Union (AU) Peace and Security
Council (PSC) meeting at the on-going AU
summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.










The President noted that as the meeting of
PSC focused on the situations of South
Sudan and Burundi, it required the leaders
to put the situations in both countries in
proper context.








“The people of these countries are suffering
while their political leaders are bickering
among themselves.









“I believe that is incumbent upon us as
leaders to always place the interest of our
countries above narrow and personal
interests.









“It is therefore my expectation that at the
end of this summit, the PSC will come out
with a united message to call on all parties
to act in the interest of their people and the
entire continent,’’ Buhari charged.









The Nigerian President added that the
leaders must make deliberate efforts to
“save the face of Africa, we must give hope
to the hopeless.









“The time to do so is now as we look
forward on the march toward 2063 to
deliver a continent that is at peace with
itself, prosperous, a global partner and a
democratic show case’’.









Buhari noted that the continent was
inundated with conflicts of diverse forms
including the crises in Burkina Faso, Mali,
Libya, Central Africa Republic, South Sudan,
and more recently in Burundi.









“As you are aware in 2013 during our 50th
anniversary celebration of our union, we as
African leaders committed ourselves to the
objective of silencing the local guns in Africa
by 2020.









“With just five years remaining, the prospect
of realising this objective looks doubtful,’’
Buhari noted. (NAN)











source:www.leadership.ng/news/440452/buhari-urges-african-leaders-to-place-country-above-self

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