Buhari In Germany – President Muhammadu Buhari is in Germany on his very first official trip outside Africa since his inauguration on May 29 2015. It is to honour an invitation by the Group of Seven (G-7) most industrialised countries of the world that is meeting in Munich.
At the meeting, the Nigerian leader is expected to use the uncommon chance to short the international community on the thrust of his administration and the achievable techniques it can be of help to a country plagued with corruption, insecurity and unemployment, as properly as energy and power crises. He will also hold talks with world leaders, multilateral and bilateral agencies and other worldwide institutions, on matters of mutual interest.
The invitation, extended to him as soon as he was declared president-elect, is observed by analysts as a goodwill gesture and an extension of a hand of cooperation with his work to kick start off his administration. Buhari will also use the chance to draw the interest of the planet leaders to the problems of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), infrastructure development, the environment, enhanced transparency in elections and good governance.
The meeting could not have come at a greater time, as it delivers the Nigerian leader the much-preferred stage to advertise the nation. Not just its issues and challenges, but also efforts being produced to overcome them as properly as the prospects the nation holds as a location for economic and company investment and cultural exchanges. The invitation to the new Nigerian leader, in our view, is a demonstration of the high regard the planet has for Nigeria as Africa’s major economy and also the role it has been playing and will continue to play as a strategic nation in Africa and important ally of the Western nations.
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Since the president’s election in March there has been an outpouring of goodwill, enhanced expectation and renewed hope in the possibilities his administration can engender soon after years of virtually inaction by his predecessors in workplace. The president is conscious of the demands by a populace previously worked into a state of near despondency by the impunity of the political leaders. His reputation as an incorruptible former military leader, his utterances and assurances enkindled in his supporters, regional and international, the feeling of acceptability necessary at this time to give the sleeping giant Nigeria was perceived to be the kiss of life to allow it actualise its latent prospective.
Buhari In Germany
We see the Munich gathering as an auspicious moment for the new Nigerian leader to market place himself and justify the self-assurance reposed in him by the electorate who took his promises to heart and have entrusted him with their destiny, at least for the subsequent 4 years. It is also a platform for him to reassure his close friends abroad, who gave him the benefit of doubt and endorsed him as the man capable of taking the country back to the appropriate path of prudence and sustained development, that indeed he will.
