Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says the
security challenges confronting the country will not define President Muhammadu
Buhari’s legacy.
Addressing a press conference on the Buhari administration’s
mid-term report (second term) on Tuesday, Mohammed said despite the
government’s best efforts, “naysayers” have refused to see progress.
The minister said the Buhari administration has done so much
with little.
“I want to state emphatically that while more attention has
been given, especially in recent times, to the security challenges facing our
country, those challenges are fleeting and will not define the legacy of
President Muhammadu Buhari,” he said.
“Let me say that President Buhari’s legacy is assured, and
will be defined by his massive achievements in office.
“The roads, rails, bridges, mass housing, port development,
improvement in power supply and other massive infrastructural development will
last for generations to come and will help propel economic growth and national
development.
“However, in spite of our best efforts, the naysayers have
continued to say they have not seen what this administration has achieved. They
have continued to deny the obvious by pretending that these achievements are
not real.
“Even when they have travelled on the new standard gauge
rail from Abuja to Kaduna, Lagos to Ibadan, and Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri, they
still deny that any progress has been made in modernizing the country’s rail
infrastructure.
“They travel through the ultra-modern airport terminals in
Abuja and Enugu, yet they deny any progress has been made in modernizing our
airports.”
Mohammed said it is “monumental” that the federal government
has achieved much despite the paucity of funds.
This minister listed Lagos-Ibadan expressway,
Apapa-Oworonsoki expressway, Enugu-Port Harcourt road dualisation,
Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja road dualisation, Abuja-Kaduna- Zaria expressway, and the
Kano-Maiduguri expressway dualisation as some of the projects achieved by the
administration.
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