President-elect, Muhammadu
Buhari, has given assurances to
Nigerians that he would handle
state resources with utmost
responsibility and honesty and
that he would not condone the
looting of public resources.
Speaking while receiving a
delegation of the people of his
home state, Katsina, who came
to congratulate him on his
election as President of Nigeria,
Mr. Buhari regretted that the
citizens had been made poorer
by the 16 years of PDP
maladministration in spite of
the fact that the country
received more income in that
period than at any other time.
Mr. Buhari said savings from his
war against corruption would be
ploughed into education with
the objective of empowering
the citizens.
“If you give education to a man
or woman, you have
empowered them to be
productive. There is no better
way to empowerment,” Mr.
Buhari said.
The President-elect, who
exchanged banters with old
schoolmates and kinsmen
among the 130-odd delegation,
spoke about his resolve to work
with all Nigerians to pull
Nigerians out of the current
hardships facing them.
Mr. Buhari also expressed his
commitment to multi-party
democracy as the best system
of government and appealed to
all citizens to imbibe courage
and perseverance, virtues he
said, stood him in good stead in
earning him victory after failing
three times in the past
presidential elections.
The leaders of the delegation,
who spoke on the occasion,
included the state Chairman of
the Katsina State chapter of the
All Progressives Congress (APC)
, Mustapha Inuwa; a former
Governor of the state, Saidu
Barda, a leading Muslim cleric,
a representative of federal
legislators and a representative
of the traditional institutions in
the state.
They all pledged their support
and commitment to the in-
coming Buhari administration
and promised to avoid the
mistakes of others by imbibing
humility and respect for all
sections of the country
