Nigerians are benefitting from Buhari’s Foreign Trips – Aide

Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Public Matters, Mr. Ajuri Ngelale has said that the president’s foreign trips are not in vain as Nigerians at gaining from his goodwill.
Ngelale said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja while speaking on the impact of the President’s foreign trips.

“Those trips have been extremely productive. We are now benefiting from the goodwill of the president largely because of the fact that the world knows that this is an incorruptible leader – a leader with credibility and integrity, and Nigerians are now benefiting from that,” he said.

“President Muhammadu Buhari’s excursions to the Russian Federation and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been very much in the interest of the country.

“I say that because when you look at the deliverables from those trips, you will realize the extent to which those trips have now added value to our nation’s economy.

“Specifically, we are really excited about the Russian trip because we had a lot of series of negotiations that culminated in agreements that we have now signed bilaterally which are all government-to-government transactions

The presidential aide said that some of the sectors that would directly benefit from the bilateral agreements are solid minerals development, transport, iron ore mining, and defence.

In the solid minerals sector, the Ajaokuta Steel Company will be resuscitated via a one-billion-dollar facility that would be shared by the Russian Federation, the Nigerian government, and the Afrexim Bank.