Posted on: 02:18 Wed, 03 Feb 2016



President Buhari has commended the gesture of
the former president Goodluck Jonathan on
relinquishing power after losing the 2015
general election which ensured that Nigeria
remained peaceful despite predictions of
tension before the elections.

The president lauded Jonathan while speaking
at the European Union parliament’s plenary
session in Strasbourg, France on Wednesday,
February 3 while further stating that Jonathan
set a trend that no other Nigerian leader has
set.

He said: “Democracy has come to Nigeria to
stay, sooner than we expected, Nigeria will be
regarded as one of the strongest in Africa.”

President Buhari also restated the commitment
of the government to find and rescue the
abducted Chibok girls and ensure that they are
reunited with their parents.

He said: “The government will not rest until the
girls are rescued alive and reunited to their
parents,”
He also noted that technological backwardness,
poverty and diseases are one of the problems of
the government.

President Buhari also spoke on the war aginst
the Boko Haram terrorists and the military’s
success so far?

“We have reorganised the Nigerian Armed
Forces and repositioned them to deal decisively
with the Boko Haram terrorists.

“Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states local
government areas where the insurgents once
dominated have been gradually recaptured.”

The president also said that the activities of the
insurgents has been decimated to only the
Sambisa Forest.