I AM DELIBERATELY SLOW IN MY ADMINISTRATION TO AVOID MISTAKES- PRESIDENT BUHARI

Responding to criticisms on the alleged slow nature of his administration, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday that he deliberately adopted the style so as to avoid mistakes. Mallam Garba Shehu Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President gave the explanation in his statement when he was receiving a delegation of Women In Politics Forum at the Aso rock Villa in Abuja.
President Buhari defends the administration records in respect  of the criticism that it is too slow with the argument that the system is necessary as a caution to avoid mistakes and that the administration is "trying to change structures put in place by our predecessors in office for 16 years. If we hurry it, we will make mistakes. That will be a disaster.”

The President lamented what is happening in the North Eastern Nigeria that " what I saw for myself and on those clips is a source of concern for people with conscience," also that it is even pathetic that women and children are the most affected victims.

Talking further on terrorism in the North East, Buhari told his guests that a committee to rehabilitate infrastructure and resettle Internally Displaced Persons in the affected parts of the country would be inaugurated soon to be led by Lt.-Gen Theophilus Danjuma (retd.) and will also include Alhaji Aliko Dangote.

The President said that the assistance that has been generated within and outside Nigeria will be channeled through the committee after inauguration, and a list of damaged infrastructure have been compiled which will be handed to the leaders of G7 and the United States, stating that nothing in term of cash has been requested for and that "It is up to them to choose what they will undertake. Already, some of them have sent teams to verify our assertions.”

About the Chibok girls , the President said, what happened to the girls “continues to be a most worrying issue” to his government and that the fight for their return is ongoing and promised that all would be done by his administration to ensure that they gained their freedom.

He further assured the women that the budget proposal for the year 2016 is good for employment and manufacturing and that by the end of the second quarter", its positive impact "will be felt.”

The visiting women consist of leaders from 26 registered political parties and were led by Ebere Ifendu of the Labour Party expressed their full support for the government’s war on corruption and insecurity.