FORMER American Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Walter Carrington,
yesterday said the American government and other world powers were
prepared to assist Nigeria regain its position as the giant of Africa
because of their confidence that President Muhammadu Buhari was an
honest leader and “tough enough to turn this country around.”
He spoke while delivering a lecture titled Nigeria and the future of the Black World,
at the First Eminent Lecture Series of the University of Benin, UNIBEN.
He asserted that President Buhari
would make life uncomfortable for the
few Nigerians who corruptly enriched themselves to the detriment of the
vast majority of the people.
He said: “As a private citizen Buhari lived modestly and since taking
on the duties of president, he has set a refreshing example of
financial transparency which all public officials should and must
emulate. I believe that having been elected democratically as a civilian
president, President Buhari will fulfil the third of Abraham Lincoln’s
prepositional triad making his a government for the people, a government
which cares more for the welfare of the poor majority and disadvantaged
than for the unjust enrichment of the privileged few and their enablers
who too often in the past have looted the national treasury.”
Ambassador Carrington, who reiterated his love for Nigeria which led
to his decision to marry Dr Arese, an indigene of Edo State, lamented
that Nigeria, with its rich potentials, ought to be a leading light in
the world economy, rather, the world leaders always referred to
Johannesburg in terms of business instead of Abuja.
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