The phrase "to rescue the country" means to save or protect the country from a difficult situation, crisis, or danger. It involves taking action to improve things or restore stability and prosperity for the nation. Full definition
This country is in serious trouble, we need to rescue this country from serious trouble. (ghanapoliticsonline.com)
«This is clearly an attempt to distract the APC Federal Government from the yeoman's job it has been doing in rescuing the country from the deep rooted socio - economic, political, security and moral mess inherited from the PDP's 16 years misrule of Nigeria, instigate crisis within the party, stoke dangerous embers of religious disaffection within the party and the country generally and stem the remarkable progress being made in the reinvention and revitalisation of Nigeria. (punchng.com)
He, however, said he wouldn't be intimidated into abandoning a «divine project» of rescuing the country from maladministration. (punchng.com)