What Obama and Buhari talked about when they met

Posted by: Kyeyune Andrew Jonathan in Uganda politics July 22, 2015

Well, it’s a great pleasure to welcome President Buhari and his delegation here to the Oval Office for his first visit since the recent election that took place.

Nigeria is one of the vulnerable countries in the world and one of the most important countries in the African continent. we saw an election in which it led into peaceful change of a new government took place.

This was a declaration of Nigeria’s commitment to democracy, an identification that although Nigeria is a big country with various many different parts, nevertheless the people of Nigeria understand that only through a peaceful political process can change take place.
President Buhari comes into office with a character of integrity and a very clear agenda, and that is to make sure that he is bringing safety and security and peace to his country.
He’s very anxious about the spread of Boko Haram and the violence that’s taken place there, and the cruelty that they’ve carried out, and has a very clear plot in defeating Boko Haram inside of his country.
He has a very clear agenda with respect to rooting out the corruption that too often has held back the economic growth and prosperity of his country.
On both these issues, we’re looking forward to hearing more about his plans and how the United States can bridge with Nigeria so that Nigeria ends up being an anchor not only of prosperity and stability in the eastern part of the continent, but can also be prestigious for developing countries around the world.
We very much look forward to talking about security issues, how we can cooperate on counter terrorism. We’re looking forward to discussing how we can be of help in addressing some of the corruption issues that have held Nigeria back, and discovering the incredible talent of the Nigerian people.
We all recognize that some of the best business-people in the world are from Nigeria, and they thrive as they travel to other countries, but we want to make sure that they’re also helping folks thrive in Nigeria.

We’re also going to have an opportunity to talk about some of the other areas where Nigeria has taken leadership — in public health issues, fighting pandemics like Ebola.
Nigeria has an outstanding track record working with us to eradicate polio, that gives us a framework and a template to continue to work on public health issues throughout the western part of Africa, as well as throughout the subcontinent.
We’ll have a chance to talk about issues of climate change, electrification. As many of you know, Power Africa is one of our top priorities, making sure that we’re electrifying the continent so that it can grow faster and more people have access to the power that they need.
So we’ve got a busy agenda, but I want to emphasize how much I appreciate President Buhari’s work so far. I’m looking forward to seeing him put together his squad so that we can do everything that we can to help him succeed and help the people of Nigeria succeed. Because if they’re successful and doing well, that will have a ripple effect not only in West Africa, but throughout the world.

So thank you very much.

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What President Buhari said!

Nigeria will remain ever grateful to President Obama and the United States for making Nigeria to consolidate its gains on a democratic system. The visit of the Secretary of State, when he visited Nigeria to see the President and the whole government of Nigeria, see the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission for Nigeria, and saw the operation was very clear and a positive trend that saw us through for this credible election we had.
And the maintenance of pressure by the United States, mainly, and Europe, to make sure that the elections were free, fair and credible led us to where we are now.

It would have been almost impossible if the United States did not maintain the pressure on the former Nigerian government, but they would not accept anything less constitutional as far as the processes of the election are concerned.

We will ever remain grateful to you because there are fundamental objectives that identify all of Nigeria’s people’s Congress — security, economy, employment especially of youth, and then fighting corruption.

We are extremely happy that the United States had made it absolutely clear before the election that they are prepared to help Nigeria in this aspect, this is why I am here, and I am very grateful for the invitation Mr. President extended to me.

Thank you very much, Mr. President.

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