President Muhammadu Buhari says
that the next four years will be tough.
Buhari was speaking on Friday
when he had audience with members of the federal executive council (FEC) who
came to congratulate him on his victory during the last election.
The president also said he proved
two points when he embarked on extensive campaigns across the 36 states and the
federal capital territory (FCT).
He said he proved his medical
fitness to skeptics by ensuring that no state was left out during the
campaigns.
The president said his ability to
campaign sometimes in two states per day during the period, showed that he is
sound and ready to continue in leading Nigeria for the next four years.
He said he would continues with
his three point agenda of fighting insecurity, corruption and fixing the
economy.
Buhari while expressing his
gratitude to God that the agriculture sector had helped a lot in strengthening
the economy with the help of soft loans to farmers, noting that agricultural
output has been rewarding because of the steady rainy seasons.
According to him, the investment
in agriculture would have been a futile effort if there had been no good steady
rainy seasons.
“First, I am pleased that members
of the federal executive council (FEC) are collectively meeting here today
where we play our weekly role to congratulate me. I think if I have lost the
election, I don’t know how many of them will be here,” he said.
“Secondly, during the campaigns,
I tried to visit the 36 states and Abuja, firstly, to prove to the other side
that I’m fit. I tried to cover two states per day and secondly, not to make
anybody feel that any state had been left out.
So, I thank God that He gave me
the strength and health to see through my plan and I think it is appreciated.
“My last lap of four years , I
think it is going to be tough because people are being forgetful. That was why
wherever I went, I reminded them of the campaign promise of our party,
particularly security, as I kept on saying that you have to secure the country
well and institutions. If you don’t secure the country, you can’t achieve
anything no matter how many programmes you put in place.
“Secondly, on the economy,
unemployment is a problem of this country as a whole. More than 60 per cent of
the youths, they need to be kept busy. I realised that God heard our prayers.
It had been two good rainy seasons and we had the foresight to get the Ministry
of Agriculture and Rural Development and Central Bank to try and give soft
loans to farmers so that everybody that is educated and looking for white
collar jobs and cannot get it, can go back to the land. We are lucky the rainy
season had been good.”
He praised the governors of Lagos,
Ogun, Kebbi, Jigawa, and Ebonyi, whom he said had played notable roles in
stopping rice importation through large scale rice cultivation.
“I think we are also lucky that
through the governors in some states like Lagos, Ogun, Kebbi, Jigawa, Ebonyi,
in particular, we don’t import rice but we have savings from rice in terms of
foreign exchange which we put in the budget and use for infrastructure,” he
said.
“That is a very good thing
because the oil sector is becoming very difficult to predict. It is becoming
unpredictable and depending on it makes us materially insecure but thank
goodness, agriculture has come to save it and people are appreciating it.”
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ReplyDeleteIf mr.president wants to really achieve his agenda for a better Nigeria, I think and suggest that he shld slam the hammer on everybody(political friends and enemies). God bless NIGERIA
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