Good Things Happening In Nigeria – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has said good things are happening in Nigeria and security have been jigged up in a way that bandits, terrorists, insurgents have been put on the back foot.

Femi Adesina, the Specail Adviser to the president on media and publicity in a weekly bulletin of the state of activities and achievement of President Muhammadu Buhari published on Friday indicated that President Muhammadu Buhari made the position known when he gave a keynote address at Shangri-La Hotel in Paris, France on Wednesday at the Nigeria International Partnership Forum, put together for Nigerian and French investing community.

Femi Adesina said the event had a roll call of the brightest and best in the Nigerian business firmament, including Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu, Chairman BUA Group and head, France-Nigeria Business Council, Mr Tony Elumelu, Chairman Heirs Holdings and UBA, Alhaji Mohammed Indimi, Chairman, Oriental Energy Resources, Prince Nduka Obaigbena, Chairman/Editor-in-Chief, ThisDay Group and Arise News Channels, among many others.

According to Femi Adesina, President Buhari said the apostles of ‘nothing is happening, except insecurity’ should look for other music to sing, and for other dance steps. “Honest Nigerians can see and feel the good things happening. It was unfolded to Nigerian and international investors in Paris on Wednesday.

“Those who have consigned themselves perpetually to the complaint counters should wake up. The market is over. It is time to go home, and do something better”, he said.

The president said insecurity in Nigeria has been addressed in a way that bandits, terrorists, insurgents have been put on the back foot as well as evildoers are on daily basis being sent to God to answer for their crimes. “Is the country not being cleaned up, and it is just a matter of time before the sanitation is completed?

“Our armed forces have been equipped, trained and motivated like never before. The economy has successfully been diversified, after more than five decades of lip service. Corruption is being robustly fought, stealing is something to be abhorred. And Nigeria is being rebuilt. Projects, projects everywhere, with a good number of them slated for commissioning next year.

President Muhammadu Buhari added that the government was on the right path to achieving multi-sectoral progress. “It has re-assessed and updated the national security strategy, which has contributed to success in fighting insurgents and terrorists, and also countering violent extremism.

“Still firing from the hips, Mr President told his audience that there was a link between modern infrastructure and the overall economic development of a nation, “hence the massive infrastructural expansion programme we have been executing in various sectors”, the statement reads in part.