Under me, your money will be safe – Buhari

Public funds will be safe with the incoming administration, President-elect Gen. Muhammadu Buhari pledged yesterday.

He assured Nigerians that he would handle state resources with utmost responsibility and honesty and would not condone the looting of public resources.

Receiving a delegation of the people of Katsina, his home state, in Abuja, General Buhari regretted that the citizens had been made poorer by the 16 years of PDP maladministration in spite of the fact that the country received more income in that period than at any other time.

Buhari said savings from his war against corruption would be ploughed into education with the objective of empowering the citizens.

“If you give education to a man or woman, you have empowered them to be productive. There is no better way to empowerment,” Buhari said.

The president-elect, who exchanged banters with old schoolmates and kinsmen alike, among the 130-odd delegation, spoke about his resolve to work with all Nigerians to pull the citizens out of the current hardships facing them.

Buhari also expressed his commitment to multi-party democracy as the best system of government and appealed to all citizens to imbibe courage and perseverance, virtues he said, stood him in good stead in bringing victory to him, after failing three times in the past presidential elections.

On the delegation were the state Chairman of the Katsina State APC, Mustapha Mohammed Inuwa and  a former Governor of the state, Alhaji Saidu Barda.

They all pledged their support and commitment to the in-coming Buhari administration and promised to avoid the mistakes of others by imbibing humility and respect for all sections of the country.