I will be president at the wrong time - Buhari says

Nigeria’s president-elect Muhammadu Buhari, has appealed to Nigerians to exercise patience with his government because he is taking over the reins of governance 'at the wrong time'.

While speaking on Sunday May 10 when he played host to the northern elders’ forum led by Mataima Sule, an elder statesman, Mr Buhari said,

''You have to convince your constituencies that you have virtually arrived at the wrong time and that they have to temper their expectation. Try and persuade the people that it is not possible to change the state of affairs over night. See how efficiently the PDP managed Nigeria in the last 16 years and those 16 years, most of you know it better than myself; Nigeria earned revenue more than what it earned from 1914 to then. Now, we have invariably inherited all the problems, especially in the north-east. You know that we use to have Nigeria Airways, Nigeria shipping line, Nigeria Railways. Where are they now? Where is the infrastructure? Consider what we earned Between then and now and what we earned in-between and what is on ground. That is how efficiently how the PDP managed Nigeria in the last 16 years. Now, we have invariably inherited all the problems, especially in the north east. I am sure that you have heard or seen the children recovered from Sambisa forest. Only the children and women are remaining while all the able bodied have been gotten rid of somehow. Some have been taken to as far as Adamawa state to be resettled. A generation has been denied education and health care, infrastructure has gone. You can imagine what is happening in the high sea where up to 400,000 barrel of crude oil which we rely on is stolen everyday with the full cooperation of those who are supposed to protect it. The fuel price has gone down and 90 percent of foreign exchange we rely on come from that.