President Muhammadu Buhari Monday said
that he inherited a “virtually empty treasury”
with debts running into hundreds of millions of
Dollars and appealed to the media to explain
the true position to Nigerians so that “they
won’t match on us”.
The President who spoke while meeting with
members of the State House Press Corps
said it was a disgrace that Nigeria is not able
to pay workers salaries adding that this was
as a result of bad management. According to
him, there was already a lot of pressure on
his government due to the huge expectations
of Nigerians on what they desire from the
administration. While calling on the media to
cooperate with his administration, President Buhari said he choose Femi Adesina to be his Adviser
because he is ‘one of the best’.

“It is not by accident that I got the best of you
to be the special adviser, one of the 15 aides
I had to get clearance from the Senate. He is
one of the best President of the guild that I
can have as special advisers. I brought one
of the best of you so that he can consistently
defend me against you. “Whether my job is a
difficult one or easy it is up to him, but I’m
here to thank you in advance for what good
and ill you are going to do to me.
“I have to quickly come and see you and
welcome you to this place. I hope what
happened of recent between the former
president and one of you (the seizure of the
accreditation of the Radio Germany reporter)
will not happen between me and you.
“I hope we are starting and this culture
developed, of 100 days is bringing so much
pressure with treasury virtually empty, with
debts in millions of dollars, with state workers
and even federal workers not paid their
salaries. It is such a disgrace for Nigeria.
I think Nigeria should be in a position to even
pay it’s workers. This is bad management
that we find ourselves in, we really need your
help to protect us from people before they
match on us” he said.

For members of the State House Press Corps,
it is a first time that they would be meeting
the president, starting from President
Obasanjo up to President Goodluck Jonathan.
Chairman of the State House Press Corps,
Kehinde Amodu who spoke on behalf of
members of the Corp pledge to work with the
government in the interest of Nigeria.

Source: http://nigeriainfohub.com/buhari-nigeria-treasury-virtually-empty/

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