President Muhammadu Buhari has assured all Nigerians that
the mandate for change remains relevant.
The President said the mandate will be steadily followed to
improve livelihoods as he marks the first year anniversary of his second term
in office.
In a statement signed and made available by
his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, Buhari said
the campaign had been hard fought; yet the mandate the people of this country
gave him was decisive.
Buhari recalled that he won the 2019 election with a
distance of nearly four million votes or 15 per cent of the total votes cast
over his closest opponent.
“It was then – and is today – a mandate for change,” Buhari
stated.
According to Buhari, for many years people of the country
have yearned for something different: less of the corruption and immoral greed
of those who once governed; more decency in public life and fairness, and a
chance to succeed.
He noted that Nigerians also yearned for improved security
and end to terrorist bombings and for long-delayed infrastructure.
“Day by day, step by step, the President and his team are
making the change that Nigerians have demanded.
“And it is a demand. Elected officials are servants, not
masters. They govern at your discretion. The authority is yours to grant – and
it is yours to take away.
“Since last year, President Buhari strived to implement the
plan you endorsed with your votes. He has overseen an increase in foreign
investment; construction of new roads, bridges and rails, and put structures in
place to improve employment, and accomplished the diversification of the
national economy through a massive growth in agriculture.
“The President secured the long-overdue return of taxpayers’
monies from overseas, stolen in the 1990s, and put this to use in supporting
citizens in dire need.
“Because of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown measures
implemented to stem and halt its spread, much of what the administration
strives for and delivered may seem at risk.
“President Buhari realizes the burden so many citizens carry
just to make ends meet, and the suffering they endure.
“The President assures Nigerians that this too shall come to
pass.
“As he said in a recent speech: ‘we are bolstering our
capacity to contain the virus. Soon, when we overcome our present troubles, the
work to build Nigeria will start anew. And as we do, we find ourselves before
the gates to a new, post-COVID world.
“‘Thanks to reforms in governance, our war on corruption and
the hard work and trust of the Nigerian people, we are better positioned as a
nation than ever before to seize new opportunities that await us to trade,
build, make and export with the world.
‘”I thank you, the people of Nigeria, for your wisdom and
your determination for change. We go forward, together.”
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