President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appealed to Nigerian medical professionals practising abroad to return home and contribute to the country’s development.
The President made the appeal while receiving members of the Nigerian Diaspora Medical Associations at the State House.
The delegation was led by the Director-General of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa.
Tinubu encouraged the doctors to draw inspiration from his decision to return to Nigeria after studying and working in the United States.
“I’ve been through that journey. I’m home, and I can tell you, there’s nowhere like home. I’ve experienced being in America. I’ve taken the best of America in my chosen profession, accountancy and finance.
I can’t forget the Standard Oil Building in Chicago and my first week there. But since I came back from Mobil to now, it has been a very good challenge to commit and endure the possibility of turning Nigeria around.
So many of you have seen the hazards of the other side of the world. You’ve experienced the tribulation and challenges, and you’ve come back home to feel it and seal it,” he noted.
He also urged them to encourage their colleagues overseas to come back, assuring them that his administration would continue to create an enabling environment for medical professionals to practise and thrive.
“My friends who are still there, try to attract them home. But the best way to demonstrate to you is for me to commit myself to my agenda, the Renewed Hope, so that the hope of Nigerians of having a better environment, better education, better development and prosperity can be realised.
Your children will see the foundation of this country as belonging to them, and the future belonging to them is what we are working hard for. Your coming to help is immeasurable,” the president said.
The President reiterated his administration’s commitment to tackling poverty and improving the living standards of Nigerians.
“Poverty is not acceptable. We won’t accept it. We will fight it. We will bring prosperity. We will bring care to our people,” he noted.
