While many Nigerians are accusing Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari of moving at a snail pace, the President got kudos from his US counterparts Barrack Obama who declared that so far his (Buhari) Government has shown leadership.
Buhari, is currently in United States on 4-day official visit .
“I want to emphasize how much I appreciate President Buhari’s work so far. I have seen him put together a team so that we can do everything that we can to help him succeed and help the people of Nigeria succeed”, Obama declared.
His words, “It is a great pleasure to welcome President Buhari and his delegation here in the White House for his first visit since the historic election that took place
“Nigeria is obviously one of the most important countries in the world, one of the most important countries in the African continent.
“Recently, we saw an election in which a peaceful transition to a new government took place. Nevertheless, the people of Nigeria understand that only through a peaceful political process that can change takes place.
“President Buhari came into office with reputation for integrity and a very clear agenda that is to make sure that he has been bringing safely security and peace to his country.
“He is very concerned about the spread and the violence that is taking place there and the atrocities and has a very clear agenda in defeating Boko Haram and extremists”.
While responding, President Buhari commended the American Government under the leadership of President Obama for pressurizing former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration to conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.
He said, “And the maintenance of pressure by United States mainly and Europe to make sure that the elections were free, fair and credible made us to be where we are now.
“It would have been almost impossible if the United States did not maintain the pressure on the former Nigerian Government.”
