The expectation of every Nigerian for President Muhammed Buhari is to hit the ground running by seen to the realization of some of the promises he made during the electioneering campaigns.
When some representatives of foreign countries came to congratulate him on his success at the polls, they came with requests from their leaders for him to visit their countries for one bilateral agreement or attending one summit or the other.
We would like to call on our president to shelve some of those requests and face the task of rebuilding the comatose economy. It’s too early for those countries to be calling on the President to visit their countries when the situation on the ground needs urgent attention.
Nigerians have been passing through hardship with what was inflicted on them by the past regime, hence the newly elected president should be allowed some time to put his house in order, before any official engagement outside the shore of this country.
We recognize the efforts of our foreign friends in assisting the country to overcome its present challenges, but it should give time for the new government to meet its obligations to the people who are in high expectation of realizing the task of solving most of the problems it inherited from the previous government, which has affected the entire lives of it citizenry.
We hope the international community’s would bear with us in this difficult time that country is facing now.
By Bala Nayashi
Lokoja, Kogi State.