President-elect,
General Muhammadu Buhari, has given assurances to Nigerians that he would
handle state resources with utmost responsibility and honesty and that he will
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, General 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.
Buhari
said savings from his war against corruption will 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,” Buhari asserted.
The
President-elect, who exchanged banters with old schoolmates and kinsmen alike,
among the 130-odd delegation spoke about his resolve to work with all Nigerians
to pull the citizens out of the current hardships facing them.
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 bringing victory to him, 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), Engineer
Mustapha Mohammed Inuwa; a former Governor of the state, Alhaji 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.
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