[ooyala code=”ExY3A5NzE643HzqwvRLFXk7WSc35RKZR” player_id=”1b17bdeb76cb4ac7b9d901fad6010bb6″ width=”1280″ height=”720″ auto=”true” autoplay=”true”] Having fought hard to become President in 2015, following three failed attempts, President Buhari, yesterday, revealed he had come close to relinquishing power.

“Actually, I felt like absconding because 27 out of 36 states in Nigeria could not pay salaries and we knew they had no other sources,” he said.

He spoke at a parley with participants of the Senior Executive Course 38 of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, who had visited the Villa to submit a report of their study.
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Buhari noted that in the last one and a half years of his administration, the economy experienced tough times, especially decline in oil revenues. He, however, pointed out: “The economic recession is not the making of this administration, but rather a consequence of bad management of the economy in the past couple of decades.”

Buhari said: “It is impossible for this administration to ignore the poor who made great sacrifice to bring us to government. Ours, more than any other government in the history of Nigeria, is a people’s government. We, therefore, must and we will keep faith with the people.

“It is in this light that I wish to declare the commitment of this administration to the Sustainable Development Goals, most especially to ending extreme poverty in Nigeria. It is not going to be easy, but we are committed to dealing with the challenges in a decisive manner.”