I Don’t Mind Collaborating With International Organizations To Fix Nigeria – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has come out to say that his government is committed to collaborating with think-tank group and investment promoter, Horasis Global Visions Community, to solve the problems facing Nigeria.

He recently revealed this at a virtual meeting with members of the group led by its founder and chairman, Dr. Frank-Jürgen Richter, cross-sectional representatives of State Governors and corporate organizations in Nigeria.

According to him, he is very happy with the previous works Horasis has done since it was founded in 2005 and he hopes many other corporate organizations in Nigeria will be drawn into the mainstream discussion around several challenges facing Nigeria and the rest of Africa.

He added that leaders must learn to work on resolving multi-faceted challenges facing mankind.

His words, “As a platform for frank discussions and generation of multidisciplinary ideas for the resolution of multi-faceted challenges facing mankind, the work of governments and corporate organisations are expected to be impacted more positively,”

“It is my hope that many corporate organizations in Nigeria will be drawn into the mainstream discussion around several challenges facing Nigeria and indeed the rest of Africa.”

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Muhammadu Buhari GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician currently serving as the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and previously served as the nation’s head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d’état. The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government.

He unsuccessfully ran for the office of president of Nigeria in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 general elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 general elections. Buhari won the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This marked the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in a general election. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015. In February 2019, Buhari was re-elected President, defeating his closest rival Atiku Abubakar by over 3 million votes.

Buhari has stated that he takes responsibility for anything over which he presided during his military rule, and that he cannot change the past. He has described himself as a “converted democrat”.

Muhammadu Buhari was born to a Fulani family on 17 December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Hardo Adamu, a Fulani chief, and mother Zulaihat. He is the twenty-third child of his father. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father died when he was about four years old.