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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
President Muhammadu Buhari has apologised to people he might have hurt in the course of his duties as the number citizen of the country.
Buhari made the appeal while receiving FCT residents, led by the minister, Mohammed Bello, who paid him a final Sallah homage at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday.
He thanked FCT residents and Nigerians for tolerating him over the last seven and a half years of his administration.
“Thank you for tolerating me…I consider myself lucky to have been a governor, minister and head of state and now president for two terms.
“I can’t wait to go home…I deliberately arranged to be as far away as possible from you people. I have got what I have asked and will quietly retire to my home town in Daura,” the president told his guests.
Buhari, who praised democracy as the best form of government, said without it, he could not have become president after already serving as military head of state and given the side of the country he hails from.
He reminded the audience that he is from the extreme corner of country, Daura, in Katsina State, which he said is just eight kilometers from Niger Republic.