Senator Shehu Sani who represents Kaduna Central in the Senate and serves as the deputy Chairman of the Senate committee on Foreign Affairs, has described as necessary the various foreign trips President Buhari has made since assuming office in May 29th. According to Sani, Buhari's trips outside Nigeria have not been as "Frivolous" as those of Former President Goodluck Jonathan. Sani said this in an interview with Leadership newspaper.


"The travels of President Muhammadu Buhari are necessary. These travels are very necessary for him to work out a programme for the economy. All the countries that he has been to, he has secured a good deal for Nigeria. He was in Iran for the 3rd Gas Exporting Countries Forum(GEFC), because as you already know, Nigeria is a major gas exporter. He travelled to Malta for security and Agricultural development, and as you also know, Nigeria is a major agricultural country. He also travelled to France on the issue of environment and climate change. So you cannot have a President that would simply sit at home and not travel. It doesn’t work that way. The travels are an opportunity for the President to project Nigeria and also bring the attention of the world to Nigeria. So his journeys are not as frivolous as those of President Goodluck Jonathan. We are living in an inter-dependent world, so it’s not possible for a president not to travel, so those who are complaining that he is travelling are ignorant. They don’t know what it takes to run an economy. And I will want to say in very clear terms that, President Muhammadu Buhari is the most prudent President in terms of travels. His travels have not gulped the kind of resources, his predecessors’ travels gulped. And we should also not forget that the party in power made promises of revamping the economy, creating jobs, protecting our borders and ending corruption, and before you can fulfil all these promises, you must work with other global leaders. For example, our president wants looted funds stashed in some of these countries, to be returned home, and if we don’t cooperate with other nations around the world, these things cannot be achieved. How can we be able to repatriate the stolen funds, how can the president protect our borders without visiting those countries?‎"he said

http://leadership.ng/news/481577/complaining-buharis-foreign-travels-ignorant-sani

Ehen!!

Please tell us something else senator, what have you done with your wardrobe allowance, we have IDP camps scattered all over the country, you are hear encouraging the Islamic puppet your people voted into power.

Shehu sani can go and die!!!

naija self, i wish it was jonathan who pick buhari nd supported him, we 4 nor hear all dis talk o, dis govt 2 full wit excus

Sometimes I wonder how some senatorial district just cast their votes for any1 dey see..... I wonder how dis inefficient senator thinks...

I don't expect him to go on all foreign trips, that is while he has a vice president, and ministers. Issues at home are as important as the foreign trips he is embarking on, one must not be neglected on behalf of the other.
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I couldn't vote for Jonathan to continue cos I detested what my country was turning into under his administration so I never voted..
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anytime I state this fact the first question I get is... "why didn't U vote for APC?"
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I voted for APC in the Lagos Governorship election but didn't in the presidential elections not because I disliked their Ideology or mantra ( I craved for 'change') but because I couldn't convince myself (for d sake of my present and future family) to vote for Buhari because..
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1...Buhari was a former President, former minister of petroleum and so many other top offices he held back then and yet he still tags himself as 'poor', borrowing money then to buy nomination forms. I'm not saying he should have embezzled our money but...for God's sake, it takes wisdom, vision and creativity to be a rich and successful man. Buhari couldn't create an empire with the "little" salary he made those days then I strongly don't believe he can change d fortunes of Nigeria.
it was shameful during asset declaration when I saw the wealth our VP has amassed for himself and his family, comparing it with that provided by our president who is meant to lead us out of brokeness.
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2...Buhari has been contesting for presidency since 2003 and all those while as an aspirant, he never influenced katsina, Nigeria or Africa In any positive way, (he has no known charity foundation in his name), the only time one hears of Buhari then is when he makes Violence Inciting comments that leads to loss of lives especially in the north....
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please fellow Nigerians, don't expect much from our president, he doesn't really have much to offer just pray for God to give him WISDOM and POWER not to lead us astray...
...Remember Nigeria is our country.

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Teewhy2:
I don't expect him to go on all foreign trips, that is while he has a vice president, and ministers. Issues at home are as important as the foreign trips he is embarking on, one must not be neglected on behalf of the other.
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And which of those trip did you see his counterparts represented by their vice? He wasn't attending a funeral, a coronation or a birthday with 300 entourage like those before him. It's good to stand with the truth at all times.

May vultures lay sh*ts on that your afro.

Yes, it might be frivolous, but we saw what the Economy was THEN and what the Economy is NOW.

Ok.