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| President Muhammadu Buhari |
President Muhammadu
Buhari said he will continue passing the buck for Nigerians to know what went
wrong with the country in the past. According to him, it was absolutely
necessary to blame his predecessors for the nation’s woes in order to “remind
people who take things for granted.”
Daily Trust report continues:
The
president was speaking at the Old Banquet Hall of the Aso Rock Presidential
Villa in Abuja Thursday night during an event tagged “The Conversation: An
Evening with Creative Youths.” The theme of the programme was “Creative Youths
as Drivers of the Change Agenda.”
He
said: “My dear countrymen, especially the youth, you have a fantastic country.
God has endowed Nigeria with human and material resources. I’m going to bore
you with what we met. I know that I’m being accused in the papers of passing
the buck, but passing the buck is sometimes absolutely necessary to remind
people who take things for granted.
“When
we came in, I screamed to high heavens because I had promised a lot while
seeking votes. I said where is the savings? There was no savings. There was no
infrastructure, power, rails, roads, there was none. What did we spend the
money on? I was told buying food and petrol, the president said.
“Where
were the billions going? We conducted a study and found out that the oil
marketers were committing fraud on at least one third of what they were
importing, which is about 25 per cent of our foreign exchange,” the president
stated.
The president said with the condition the country found itself, the youth must “watch over” the elite.
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