President
Muhammadu Buhari says he felt like “absconding” after seeing the
enormity of the challenges facing the country when he assumed office in
May 2015.
He was speaking on Thursday during a parley with participants of the
Senior Executive Course 38 of the National Institute for Policy and
Strategic Studies (NIPPS) at the state house in Abuja.
He again blamed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Nigeria’s
economic woes.
Buhari said: “For 16 years and eight consecutive governments of the
other party… there was unprecedented revenue realised, the oil
projection which can be verified was 2.1 million barrels per day. From
1999-2015 the average cost of each Nigerian barrel of oil was $100 per
barrel.
“When we came it fell to less…