President Muhammadu Buhari has granted an interview to Arise TV in which he discussed certain challenges facing the country.
The President addressed issues that bordered on insecurity, appointments, unemployment and the economy.
When questioned on the decline in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Buhari said he has told Governors and traditional rulers to tell the youths that they should behave themselves and make sure that Nigeria is secure so foreign investments can come.
According to him, nobody is going to invest in an unsecured environment. The President also alleged that young people wanted to march to Aso Rock during the #EndSARS protest and remove him from power.
Buhari said “This question was answered last year when there was the #EndSARS protest last year. Do you remember the young people that wanted to march here and remove me? Tell the young people to behave themselves and make the country safe, then we can attract real investors to the country”.
On what he is doing to make the people of the south-east feel included in his administration, the President said “You better get the list of our civil servants, if you think there are no people from the south-east. There are people from the south-east.”
He also described the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) as “a dot in a circle,” adding that he has been assured by “the elderly people” and “the youths” from the south-south part of the country that the region has no intention of seceding.
He added “I was encouraged by what I heard, nobody told me. Two statements from the South South: one by the elderly people, they said this time around there would be no (secession). And again the youth made the same statement; such encouragement. So that IPOB is just like a dot in a circle. Even if they want to exit, they’ll have no access to anywhere. And the way they are spread all over the country, having businesses and properties. I don’t think IPOB knows what they are talking about. In any case, we say we’ll talk to them in the language that they understand. We’ll organise the police and the military to pursue them.”