APC defends Buhari’s foreign trips

THE leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has defended the foreign trips being undertaken by the President, Muhammdu Buhari since he came into power last year. The party said the expectations of Nigerians for President Buhari to defeat the Boko Haram insurgency and develop the country cannot be met with him sitting back at home.

APC National Chairman, Chief John Ofigie-Oyegun, who reacted to the criticisms against the president and Boko Haram continued attacks , stated that the media should help to educate the public that progress cannot be made by the President sitting down in his office only.
He stated that the President and the country needed international assistance to defeat Boko Haram and develop the country.
Also, he stated that the trip to the international community by the President was as result of the goodwill he has attracted as a president and with his agenda.
Oyegun said, “You people must have to help us educate the public that progress does not consist on the man sitting in his office 24 hours a day.

“We all know that the world is now a global village and we need the world to make the kind of massive progress that this country needs to get out of the problems that misgovernment has created and we are going to do it principally by our own efforts. There would be hard decision to take; there would e a lot of deprivation in the land but these are initial crises for a greater tomorrow.

“So, with the President and the goodwill that we now have in the international community, he must move around to consolidate our good standing and to make it easier for people to show understanding and to be of help to us in a way that it has never happened before.”

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