Amidst the controversy thrown up by the derogatory comment of President Donald Trump of America on his Nigerian counterpart, President Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidency has decided to be silent.
Speaking to newsmen today, Saturday in Beijing, China on the sideline of President Buhari’s official visit to the country, his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu said: “you know that as a policy, we said that we are not going to answer the American President.”
He said that however, the fact that the entire world and world leaders are lining up to meet President Muhammadu Buhari, is an indication that there is something about President Buhari: there is something about the Nigeria he now leads, that the world likes.
“I think that Nigerians themselves should better look at this from this positive point of view: it is a major development.
“We had situations in the country in the past where key world leaders didn’t want to meet our own leaders. All of that has changed in the last three years.”
On the gains for Nigeria from the President’s trip, Garba Shehu said that if the momentum from the last trip is msintained, “we hope that going forward, all of the projects that are outstanding, like the Kaduna-Kano rail project, the coastal rail scheme, Mambilla power project, the second phase of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport expansion project, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja/ Kano and all of these projects, will move more steadily.
“We hope that whatever is left, the doted lines will be signed, and we are hoping that we will take back with us, quite a number of schemes that will take Nigeria forward.”
