Ambassador of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Fahad Bin Abdullah Sefyan has confessed that he loves to remain in Nigeria if it were not that he was going on retirement.
The Ambassador, who spent 20 months on tour of duty, said he loved it in Nigeria, and would have wanted to stay for longer, if not that he was now due for retirement.
Fahad Bin Abdullah Sefyan, who paid farewell visit on President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, today, Thursday, said: “I quite appreciate the relationship between the two countries.”
He commended President Buhari for his dodged fight against corruption and Boko Haram, adding: “I think you are doing very well, Your Excellency. We know what you have done with Boko Haram, and we applaud you.”
This was even as President Buhari said that the relationship between Nigeria and Saudi Arabia has been a mutually beneficial one, stressing the need for it to grow stronger in the years to come.
The President observed that apart from visiting Mecca and Medina for religious reasons, a lot of Nigerians are in Saudi Arabian universities.
He said that Nigerian economy is being gradually revived, even as he made it clear that the two countries needed to explore more areas to collaborate in future. [myad]
