President Muhammadu Buhari has pleaded with Nigerian elites to judge his administration with fairness.
Buhari was speaking at the closing of the first-year ministerial performance review retreat held in Abuja on Tuesday.
“I want the Nigerian elites, please encourage them, to judge us fairly,” Buhari said, arguing that since assumption of office, his administration has done more for the country with less resources.
The president said that average production of oil in the country, between 1999 to 2014, was 2.1m bpd sold at an average price of $100.
“When we came, it collapsed to $37, $38 per barrel, you know it. And the militants were unleashed on the administration, and the production went down to half a million barrels per day.
“I want you to please reflect, what was the condition of the infrastructure then, in spite of those earnings. The roads, the rail is dead and there was no power, up till now no power; where does the money go?”
The President noted he was doing his best to fight corruption by trying to follow the system as opposed to his military regime in 1984 when he arbitrarily rounded up politicians, threw them in jail, and required them to prove their innocence.
“Now ‘I’m being called ‘baba go slow’,” he said.

By Henry Iheanacho