We Must Pull Nigeria Out of Current Challenges- Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has made a clarion call inviting all Nigerians occupying positions of leadership to come together and pull the country out of its current challenges. The President made this urgent call when he received the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Bello, together with a cross section of residents who had come to pay him a Christmas visit at the Presidential Villa. He noted that the problem Nigeria is confronted with is getting the right leadership in place for the general good of the society. In his address to his yuletide guests, President Buhari stated that, “For the leadership at various stages, both civil and spiritual, we need to be patient in managing the society. “We need to come together and pull the country out of these problems that we find ourselves, everybody in the world believes that Nigeria is a lucky country because of its natural resources. “Our problem is how to organize ourselves and how to get the right leadership in place. “We appreciate that the security agencies are doing their best and their best is showing and we have to continue praying for them. “There can be no development without security; we have to continue to pray. “If we have two million people as IDPs and 70 per cent are women and children and 30 per cent of them are children, some of them are orphans, they will grow up not knowing their parents, tradition or culture, then, as leaders we have a weighty responsibility to ensure that the infrastructure for the orphans are taken care of. “As leaders, we must realize that the most important thing for those children is that they must not be denied an education; schools must be rebuilt. “We also thank (Victims Support Fund) Danjuma and the G-7 led by the U.S.; they have been doing their best to help Nigeria to train our military and provide support to the IDPs and areas affected by the insurgency.” In their earlier comment, the FCT Minister, alongside the leader of the Christian community in Abuja, Rev. Israel Akanji, gave kudos to President Buhari for his vision and leadership qualities.