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Place your people above self, Buhari tells African leaders
Kunle Awosiyan |
President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Africa leaders to place the interest of their people above their personal interests.
He said this during the African Union Peace and Security Council meeting that is on-going at the AU summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
According to Buhari , it is incumbent upon leaders to always place the interest of their countries above narrow and personal interests.
“It is therefore my expectation that at the end of this summit, the PSC will come out with a united message to call on all parties to act in the interest of their people and the entire continent,” Buhari charged.
The President noted that as the meeting of PSC focused on the situations of South Sudan and Burundi, it required the leaders to put the situations in both countries in proper context.
“The people of these countries are suffering while their political leaders are bickering among themselves.
The Nigerian President added that the leaders must make deliberate efforts to “save the face of Africa, by giving hope to the hopeless.
“The time to do so is now as we look forward on the march toward 2063 to deliver a continent that is at peace with itself, prosperous, a global partner and a democratic show case.”
Buhari noted that the continent was inundated with conflicts of diverse forms including the crises in Burkina Faso, Mali, Libya, Central Africa Republic, South Sudan, and more recently in Burundi.