President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the militants vandalising oil installations in the Niger Delta to come and sit down with his government to decide how the nation’s resources can be managed instead of picking up arms against their fatherland.

While regretting that the problems he identified during the campaigns that preceded the 2015 presidential election which he won are still lingering even with him in the saddle for almost 18 months, he appealed to Nigerians to be patient with his government.

Buhari spoke when residents of the Federal Capital Territory led by the Minister, Muhammed Bello, paid him a Christmas homage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The President said Nigeria and its citizens were uppermost in his mind, hence he would continue to do all within his powers to improve their living conditions.