G7 to Buhari: Your Govt Inherited Serious Challenges
Tuesday, 09 June 2015 14:45
Written by Isiaka Wakili
Nigerian Daily Trust
The G7 leaders have told President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigeria is currently faced by serious problems.
The leaders of the seven most industrialized countries of US, UK, Germany, Canada, France, Italy and Japan regretted that Buhari's government had to face severe handicaps from the outset.
Speaking in Germany Monday after President Buhari had presented Nigeria's wish list to them, they listed the handicaps as lack of resources, mismanagement as well as lack of trained and equipped military.
The G7 leaders, however, noted that those "serious problems" facing Nigeria were not President Buhari's making.
According to a statement on Tuesday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the G7 resolved to support Buhari following their acknowledgment "of the way and manner of his emergence and the tremendous challenges faced by the government he leads, not of his making, especially in its efforts to combat the Boko Haram".
Shehu said: "At the end of the presentation he (Buhari) made on Monday, the G7 leaders said to him that they recognized the president's massive amount of confidence and expectations behind his government. They acknowledged him as having emerged from an election adjudged to be the freest in the country's electoral history, but regretted the severe handicaps his new government has to face from the outset.
"They told President Buhari that they took cognizance of the fact of the several handicaps including the lack of resources, leaving him with a government over-stretched in capacity, itself riddled with mismanagement. They noted that the country's army lacked training and equipment with little or no will to engage".
He said in recognition of the fact that the security threat of the Boko Haram had gone beyond Nigeria as it was affecting other countries in the region, the G7 leaders conceded that no one country could tackle it alone.
Written by Isiaka Wakili
Nigerian Daily Trust
The G7 leaders have told President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigeria is currently faced by serious problems.
The leaders of the seven most industrialized countries of US, UK, Germany, Canada, France, Italy and Japan regretted that Buhari's government had to face severe handicaps from the outset.
Speaking in Germany Monday after President Buhari had presented Nigeria's wish list to them, they listed the handicaps as lack of resources, mismanagement as well as lack of trained and equipped military.
The G7 leaders, however, noted that those "serious problems" facing Nigeria were not President Buhari's making.
According to a statement on Tuesday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the G7 resolved to support Buhari following their acknowledgment "of the way and manner of his emergence and the tremendous challenges faced by the government he leads, not of his making, especially in its efforts to combat the Boko Haram".
Shehu said: "At the end of the presentation he (Buhari) made on Monday, the G7 leaders said to him that they recognized the president's massive amount of confidence and expectations behind his government. They acknowledged him as having emerged from an election adjudged to be the freest in the country's electoral history, but regretted the severe handicaps his new government has to face from the outset.
"They told President Buhari that they took cognizance of the fact of the several handicaps including the lack of resources, leaving him with a government over-stretched in capacity, itself riddled with mismanagement. They noted that the country's army lacked training and equipment with little or no will to engage".
He said in recognition of the fact that the security threat of the Boko Haram had gone beyond Nigeria as it was affecting other countries in the region, the G7 leaders conceded that no one country could tackle it alone.
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