Buhari’s foreign trips good for Nigeria – South-East APC
The All Progressives Congress, (APC), South East, on Sunday faulted criticisms trailing President Muhammadu Buhari’s incessant trips abroad.
Mr Osita Okechukwu, the spokesman, South-East APC leadership caucus, who spoke to journalists in Enugu, said the party “fully supports President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent trips abroad.”
He stated that for the party, “Buhari is acting nobly as any a good father, whose family is not only deadly broke, but his house is on fire. He is running helter-skelter to save our dear country. This is not the kind of task to delegate.
“As a father of a broken house, he has no alternative except to run to friends and well wishers in a desperate bid to salvage our dear country, especially, when the money which could have been our reserve for the rainy day had been carted away by marauders. To worsen matters, the price of crude oil is on a free fall. Otherwise, his lethargy and inertia means there will be no food on the table. That’s the truth of the matter.”
Okechukwu added that although the party was not down-playing the crucial role of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and that of Nigerian diplomats abroad, “there is the Buhari phenomenon; therefore, his trip for us is to harvest the goodwill his election has generated for our dear country.”
“We challenge any pundit to contradict the gains of his immediate trip after visits to our neighbours for assistance on the Boko Haram insurgents or his trip to G-8 for economic recovery and foreign direct investment.
“We are hopeful of Mr President’s intending official visit to China, as projects like revamping of Enugu Coal, we understand is one of the top items on the agenda. Nigeria needs economic diplomacy now more than ever before.”
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