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.
Source:PM News
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