Buhari: Rome wasn’t built in a day...

Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president-elect, knows that the expectations of Nigerians from the incoming government are high but he has appealed for patience, saying “Rome was not built in a day”. Speaking on Tuesday when a delegation of All Progressives Congress (APC) governors visited him at the defence house in Abuja,
Buhari assured Nigerians that he would do his best to fix the economy. “Please give this incoming government a chance, give us a chance to stabilise security,” he said. “The expectation is too high and I have started nervously to explain to people that Rome was not built in a day.” Responding to the appeal of the governors that he should bail them out in clearing backlog of salaries in some states, Buhari went down memory lane in recalling how the regime of Sani Abacha, a former head of state, responded to economic difficulties. “I think we should look for a better way to address the issue of the backlog of salaries, which are of immediate concern to individuals and states,” he said “We have to think of how to persuade people to give us a chance to organise the economy immediately and get these problems fixed. “I will like to recall what happened during the Abacha regime. The Abacha regime was a military regime and it thought that the only way was to increase the prices of petroleum products, but they were not taking Nigerians for a ride. “They could have said if Nigerians decide to riot, they have the guns and so they can have their way. They decided to tell Nigerians that they were going to increase prices of petroleum products and the money we get, we will put aside for development.That was how PTF came.”

That was how PTF came.”

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