President Muhammadu Buhari has urged citizens at home to be fair to his administration at all times, asking his critics to compare the security situations in the North East and South South in 2015 and how things have improved as at now.
The disclosure was made known in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, noting that the President made the call while speaking at a meeting in Makkah with a select group of Nigerians resident in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where he just ended a visit.
According to the statement, the President also urged Nigerians living in Saudi Arabia to respect the laws, remain law-abiding and do nothing to derogate from the many years of friendly and mutually beneficial relationships between the two countries.
“My problem is the North West where people are killing and stealing from one another. I had to be very hard on them and I will continue to be very hard until we put them in line and bring back order,” he said.
According to the statement, a leader of the community, Dr. Abdulkadir Maikudi, who spoke on behalf of the group requested the President to assist the privately-run Nigerian International School in the Kingdom by equipping it to provide science and technical education.
It added that the Nigerian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Yahaya Lawal and the Consul-General in Jeddah, Ambassador Abdulkarim Mansur attested to the good conduct of the nearly 1.5 million Nigerians there, adding that “Nigerian professionals are doing well and projecting a good image of our country.”
