| President Buhari |
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday regretted that Nigeria
has little to show for the huge resources it made from oil in the past 16
years. He said despite the fact that oil sold above $100 per barrel for the
greater part of the last 16 years, leaders of the country refused to plan for
the rainy day.
The President spoke while receiving the Nigerian-born
President of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, Dr. Bernard O.
Aliyu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Buhari said while enduring infrastructure was built with the
little resources available in the First Republic, a lot of money was made in
the last 16 years with little to show for the money. The Peoples Democratic
Party has been in charge of the Federal Government in the last 16 years, until
2015 when Buhari of the All Progressives Congress ousted the former President
Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP.
He stressed the urgent need to ensure that the potentials of
Nigeria are harnessed and used for the good of the country. He said, “Nigeria
needs to work on her potentials, so that we don’t remain permanently at the
level of potentials. If Ethiopia is sustained largely by her airline industry,
we have greater potentials here. But we must move out, engage with the rest of
the world, as we need to re-establish the integrity of this country. We need to
rebuild this country again.”