Mr Babachir Lawal, the Secretary to the Government of the
Federation (SGF), has assured Nigerians that the country is in safe hands under
the leadership of President Mohammadu Buhari.
According to vanguard
He gave the assurance on Saturday in Abuja
at a reception organized in his honour by his friends and well wishers.
“The country is in safe hands and we will try our best to
deliver the change the All Progressives Congress (APC) promised Nigerians, we
have no time to waste in ensuring this,’’ the SGF said.
He expressed optimism that the ministerial nominees would do
well to advance the course of the nation and the people when they were
eventually allotted portfolio.
The SGF said that his faith in the ministerial nominees to
deliver was based on his personal relationship with some of them over the years.
He thanked God and the organisers of the reception and
assured Nigerians that he would live up to their expectations in office.
Lawal said that although many Nigerians had been praying for
his success in office, he saw his assignment as SGF as very simple because of
the supportive staff he met in office.
He promised to continue to do his best to advance the
success of the President Mohammad Buhari-led administration and the country
generally.
Earlier in his remarks, the APC National Chairman, Mr John
Oyegun, described the SGF as ‘a fiat loyalist and a man of impeccable character’’.
He said that the SGF was humble to a fault and “brutally
frank and ferocious in defending whatever he believes in’’.
Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara and Chairman of the Nigeria
Governors Forum (NGF), while congratulating the SGF, described him as a man of
integrity who could be relied on always.
The NGF chairman was represented at the reception by the
Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal.
He said that though Lawal became the SGF at a challenging
period, he would succeed because he had the right pedigree.
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