[NEWS] PMB MEET MINISTERS

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI RECEIVED SOME OF THE MINISTERS WHO SERVED WITH HIM AS MILITARY HEAD OF STATE BETWEEN JAN. 1984 AND AUG. 1985

THE PRESIDENT, WHO MET WITH THE FORMER MINISTERS AT THE PRESIDENTIAL VILLA, ABUJA, RECALLED “HOW THEY GOT THINGS DONE THEN,” BECAUSE IT WAS A MILITARY ADMINISTRATION.

BUHARI PLEDGED TO “CARRY EVERYONE ALONG ON HIS LAST LAP AS A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED LEADER.”

HE THANKED THE FORMER MINISTERS “FOR BEING CONSISTENTLY IN TOUCH” AND PARTICULARLY LAUDED THE MILITARY FOR BUILDING ABUJA AS NEW FEDERAL CAPITAL FOR THE COUNTRY.

LEADER OF DELEGATION, IBRAHIM GAMBARI, WHO SERVED AS MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, SAID THE TEAM CAME TO CONGRATULATE THE PRESIDENT ON HIS ACHIEVEMENTS IN SECURITY, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ANTI-CORRUPTION, EDUCATION, AND MANY OTHERS.