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Presidency has denied that President Muhammadu Buhari specifically told World Bank Group President, Jim Yong Kim, to concentrate its intervention efforts only in northern Nigeria.

Kim was said to have made the claim on Thursday when he spoke at a press conferences in Washington DC, United States.

“You know, in my very first meeting with President Buhari he said specifically that he would like us to shift our focus to the northern region of Nigeria and we’ve done that. Now, it has been very difficult.. The work there has been very difficult,” he was quoted to have said to his audience at the conference.

But reacting to the report in a statement on Friday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the Presidency claimed that “ignorant and mischievous people” twisted what Buhari actually discussed with the World Bank boss.

According to him “Those who specialize in a deliberate twisting of information have wailed and raged endlessly on the news item credited to the World Bank Group President, Jim Yong Kim”.

Adesina said that those who twisted the story are making it look as if there was an attempt by Buhari to give the North an unfair advantage over other parts of the country.

He argued that it has been Buhari’s demand since coming into power that the international community should support the rebuilding of the North East ravaged by the activities of Boko Haram over the years.

He said, “The truth of the matter is that President Buhari, right from his first week in office in June, 2015, had reached out to the G- 7 in Germany that Nigeria needed help to rebuild the North- East, which had been terribly devastated by insurgency.

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“He said the country would prefer help in terms of rebuilding of infrastructure, rather than cash donation, which may end up being misappropriated. In concert with governors of the region, a comprehensive list of needed repairs was sent to the G- 7 leaders.

“Also, during a trip to Washington in 2015, and many other engagements that followed , President Buhari sought the help of the World Bank in rebuilding the beleaguered North- Dast, which was then being wrested from the stranglehold of a pernicious insurgency.“

The development is coming as President Buhari, who is from northern Nigeria, has continously been accused of nepotism and tribalism by his critics.

 

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