President Muhammadu Buhari who arrived the country Friday has said the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will continue to work while he takes his rest.
Buhari who disclosed this at his first meeting with Osinbajo and other ministers in Aso Rock said he deliberately came back towards the weekend.
Below is Buhariโs speech.
โI am pleased that I am back, I am pleased that the Vice President enjoyed this break and he has to do much more this time around. Youth and intellect is squarely behind him, age and purely military experience is behind me. Continue to do the work, Nigeria will continue whether we are here or not and my single most important advise is take education of everybody under your responsibility very seriously, your children our relatives, our constituencies, education education education. We must do more on education.โ
He added; โI am deeply grateful to all Nigerians Muslims and Christians alike who have prayed and continue to pray for my good health. This is a testimony that inspite of the hardship being experienced Nigerians support the government in its efforts to tackle our countryโs challenges.
โThe best way me to pay you all is to rededicate myself to serving you, protecting your interest and keeping your trust. I thank you very much. I feel much better now.
โAll I will need is to do further follow ups within some weeks.
โRather than sending delegations to Abuja to welcome me, May I appeal to our people to continue to pray for the countryโs unity, progress and prosperity. I thank you very much and may God bless our country.
โThere is a remarkable difference between what happened now and what happened last year.
โWhen it was getting to Christmas I told the Vice President, I know he has got a church therefore he has to go home. I said ok let us do it turn by
turn, you go for Christmas and the New Year and when you come back I will go.
โHe said yes. I suspected he didnโt go home, when he came back, I said ok it will be my turn in some months time. This time around I said we better do the same, I
didnโt know he had the same principles, but for me I feel that I was a little more tired than I probably was in last eighteen months. Whatever the
case , I am very grateful that Nigerians are appreciative of what all of us are doing as a group. I am very pleased with them.
โI am cost conscious and I think the VP knows about the expenditure. So please if you were clever enough reroute your way, say on your official
duties either from US back to Nigeria.
โIf was a battle please donโt be too upset. I am very conscious of the economy. I have rested as much as humanly possible, I have received I think the best of treatment I could receive.โ
