Former American Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington, heaped not a few platitudes on President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, October 15.
Carrington said the United States government and other world powers were ready to help Nigeria become the giant of Africa, once more.
The Ambassador said the world powers were disposed to doing this, as a result of the confidence that Buhari was an honest leader and “tough enough to turn this country around.”
While delivering a lecture titled Nigeria and the future of the Black World, at the First Eminent Lecture Series of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, Carrington said Buhari would make things uneasy for Nigerians who looted the nation’s coffers at the expense of the millions of the poor populace.
He said: “I feel confident that in President Buhari, you have a leader that is honest, dedicated and tough enough to turn this country around. I have always admired his record of public probity and his lack of private flamboyance as a private citizen
“As a private citizen Buhari lived modestly and since taking on the duties of president, he has set a refreshing example of financial transparency which all public officials should and must emulate.
I believe that having been elected democratically as a civilian president, President Buhari will fulfil the third of Abraham Lincoln’s prepositional triad making his a government for the people, a government which cares more for the welfare of the poor majority and disadvantaged than for the unjust enrichment of the privileged few and their enablers who too often in the past have looted the national treasury.”
