Still in the spirit of the Democracy day celebrations, President Muhammadu Buhari reminisced on his eventful transition at the helm of affairs in Nigeria, from the fearless stand of a military leader to the receptive stand of a democratic president.
The Nigerian No.1 citizen recounted his experience while hosting judges at the presidential villa on Tuesday night. He also jovially reminded the judges of how his commitment to eradicating corruption in the country, inspired him to return to the top governmental position.
He said: “I find it necessary to invite you because I don’t normally see you. I have to repeat what I said having heard what you said,” he said. I mentioned that when I was in the military and much younger, we believed things were going wrong and so when I came, I took from the president downwards, to Kirikiri against your advise and told them that they are guilty until they prove themselves innocent.”
“But we proceeded to have various tribunals to investigate and I can still remember extremely good and fantastic Nigerians, they are few in the society that is why we don’t see the impact of fantastic people we have. I decided to put agbada and come back, I tried three times and then fourth time I eventually made it.”
President Buhari also used the opportunity to urge all Nigerians to collect their permanent voters card, PVC, so as to be able to participate in the forth coming elections.
He said: “Before, votes were disregarded and results written and there was nothing you can do before the justices to proof your case. But now with technology it has been made easy. That is why I keep appealing to the governors to embark on voters education, to please tell the people that their voters card is their national card so to speak. Let them vote for anybody they want across ethnicity and religion… I think that is why I am calling on and I am begging the governors to please continue with voters education so that people will take their permanent voters card seriously and make sure that they don’t loose it.”
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