President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that he felt like absconding after stepping into power in 2015 when he discovered the condition the nation was in.

According to CEOAFRICA’s source, Vanguard, the President made the disclosure on Thursday while addressing the Course 38 participants of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) who visited the Presidential Villa to submit a report of their study.

The president also blamed the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the financial woes facing the country, lamenting that no savings were made with the revenue generated when a barrel of oil was sold at 100 dollars per barrel.

“We’ve had 16 years and eight consecutive governments between the other party and you know the unprecedented revenue realized”, Buhari decried

“The average production which can be verified was 2.1 million barrels per day from 1999 to 2014. The average cost of each Nigerian barrel of oil was 100 dollars per barrel.

“When we came, it dived to less than 30 dollars per barrel and is now oscillation between 40 and 50.

“Actually, I felt like absconding because 27 out of the 36 states of Nigeria could not pay salaries and we know the lower income groups depend on salaries to pay rent and manage their families.

“I asked any savings? I was told there was nothing remaining. ‘What have you done on agriculture, power, rail, roads?’ Nothing.” he added.