Senator-elect advises Buhari to avoid Jonathan’s Foreign Policy Trust

Nigeria’s President-Elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), has been advised to avoid the “cassava bread foreign policy” of President Goodluck Jonathan but to work towards giving the nation a strong foreign policy.

The senator-elect for Kaduna central senatorial district, Comrade Shehu Sani, who gave the advise yesterday said it was time for Nigeria to reassert its leadership role in Africa.

He pleaded with Buhari to set up a team of experts to work in consultation with the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (INEC) and Council on Foreign Relations to repackage Nigeria’s foreign policy.

Handing this advice in a statement in Abuja, Sani said, “The emergence of Buhari as president-elect will re-launch Nigeria back to its enviable position as the leader of Africa and the black race.

“President Jonathan’s foreign policy is uncoordinated, unfocused, uninformed, non-directional and uncolourful. President Goodluck presided over a government that is ignorant of the continental and global status and responsibilities of the country.

“Under Jonathan, our leadership position in the continent slipped away. President Jonathan operated a cassava bread foreign policy.

“President Jonathan administration’s foreign policy is dismal,” he said.

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