President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday touted Africa as a key player in global manufacturing as the world adapts to changes brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.

Buhari made the affirmation in an article in Newsweek, a US distribution.
“What we need currently is for the vision of others to coordinate our own,” Buhari said.
“What’s more, Africa is situated to assume a basic job in the remolding of a post-coronavirus world that revolves around assembling.”
The President said the continent can follow the lead of countries like South Korea and China in rapidly developing “home-grown consumer goods” and contribute to global development.

“What is true is that no country or continent has a permanent monopoly on manufacturing jobs,” he said.
He emphasized the continent’s young population, improving governance reforms and investment in infrastructure as reasons for optimism.
He included that the landmass holds “shared qualities in majority rules system, abilities to speak freely and religion with the Western world—and reverence and assurance to learn and follow the quick monetary development and destitution decrease that has happened across Asia.”
In his remark, Buhari additionally said Nigeria could now push ahead with its framework aspirations after near a billion dollars of assets taken from the nation “under a past, undemocratic junta during the 1990s” have now been come back to the nation from the U.S, U.K, and Switzerland.

The “undemocratic junta” was a reference to the military administration of General Sani Abacha, who directed the nation somewhere in the range of 1993 and 1998 and purportedly plundered billions of dollars from Nigerian coffers.