Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday night said that President Muhammadu Buhari was probably poorer than when he was elected in 2015.
Osinbajo spoke during a dinner in
honour of volunteers who canvassed for votes for the APC during the campaigns
for this year’s general election, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said “When I looked at his
assets declaration form, I was checking it in 2015, I said to him, “Mr
President, I am so much richer than you, it is an embarrassment.”
“He said, “I am only a soldier,
you are a big lawyer so you should have more money than me.”
“I can tell you that he is
perhaps; even poorer than he was in 2015 when I saw his declaration of assets
form.”
He also urged Nigerians to vote
for the All Progressives Congress in the March 23 supplementary elections.
The supplementary elections will
take place in six states of Nigeria where the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, declared last Saturday’s gubernatorial election inconclusive.
He said “We are still not done
with the elections.
“On the 23rd of March, we still
have some outstanding states and as you know we are re-running in about six
states.
“And all of the efforts we need
to put into those six states, we still need to do.
“We can’t afford to slack off and
say the job is done; we still have some things to do.”
Recalling the experiences he had
during the electioneering, Osinbajo said his encounter with Nigerians as he
crisscrossed the country, campaigning for votes, showed that Nigerians are so
trusting and supportive of their leaders.
“I think that one of the main
characteristics of the Nigerian is how so supportive and trusting many of our people
are and they don’t ask us for too much.
“They never really ask for
anything that is impossible to do.
“And that’s why, for many of us
that went around this country, we realized the tremendous amount of work that
there is to do and our capacity to do so much work.
“What our people need, as we
discovered, isn’t that much.
“As a matter of fact, I do not
know any nation where the people are so generous no matter how poor they are.
Osinbajo said there was need for the
administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to connect more with the people.
“It just struck me that what we
really need to do a lot more is to connect with the people.
“All the people need is
opportunity for us to interact with them.
“We should have a way by which
everybody is involved one way or the other.
“One of the complaints that
people made about our government is that we were not communicating enough and
that people did not know what had done.”
The vice president acknowledged
that the diligent communication carried out to put across the APC message in
2015 was not sustained, making the administration lose some ground to the
opposition, especially in the social media.
He said the new administration
would ensure that it makes change in that regard.
Osinbajo said that he would take
up everyone who has challenged the administration on the issue with a view to
getting its communication of programmes and policies better.
Speaking at the event, the APC
Woman Leader, Salamatu Eluma, commended the volunteers for believing in the
vision of the President Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo and working for
their re-election.
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