By Ismail Mudashir
A former governor of Lagos
state, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said that the statement of
President Muhammadu Buhari that, “I belong to everybody and I belong to
nobody” was not targeted at him.Buhari had during his swearing
in ceremony on May 29, 2015 said, “I belong to everybody and I belong to
nobody”. It was widely believed that the statement was targeted at
Tinubu.Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives
Congress(APC) stated this during the launching of a book,” Nigeria on
firmer ground, towards lasting peace and progress” written on the
achievement of President Buhari’s administration by presidential media
team.” Peoople have murmured his inaugural address statement
that “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody” was aimed at me.
Well, I find that strange indeed as those words were what I wanted him
to say and wanted him to be,” he said.Represented by a former
Lagos state commissioner of Information, Dele Alake, Tinubu said,
“Unlike others whose stated policy is to enrich friends, Buhari took the
nobler position that it was better to help the millions of hard working
but anonymous common folk instead of maintaining the national economy
in the status of a festive party for a select few.“True to his
word, President Buhari has achieved a lot in his time in office despite
our strained financial condition due to shrunken oil prices.“Through
focused policies, the Buhari administration has set the foundation for
enduring growth of a diversifying economy not unduly reliant on an
increasingly unreliable foreign appetite for crude oil.”In his
remarks, Buhari urged youths in the country not to allow desperate
politicians to use them to violate the sanctity of the ballot and
endanger the country during the forthcoming elections.He assured that the security agencies would be deployed to protect voters during the elections.
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As the nation prepares to give her citizens the opportunity to choose
their leaders and representatives in the next few weeks, I urge all
Nigerians to exercise their civic duty in an atmosphere of peace and
security.“Let us remember that elections will come and go, but
we need a country in which to live. I am appealing to our youths: do not
allow yourselves to be used by desperate politicians to violate the
sanctity of the ballot and endanger our country. I assure you that the
security agencies will protect you as you go out to vote without fear of
violence or molestation,” he said.The president, urged the
electorate to give him another opportunity to govern the country, to
build and consolidate on the foundations laid for the development of the
country.” Our simple message to the Nigerian electorate is to
give us four more years to build and consolidate on the foundations we
have painstakingly laid so that we shall all reap the benefits of what
we have planted in all sectors of our society.” We have proved
better managers of our national assets and the limited resources
available to us than past administrations, and we are committed to
entrenching higher levels of accountability and transparency in the
years ahead,” he said.Reviewing the book, a former governor of
Ogun State, Segun Osoba, said president Buhari has done creditably well
and that, those calling Trader Moni vote-buying “are “fools.”Trader
Moni, is one of the social intervention programme of the present
administration, being implemented by the Federal Government and the Bank
of Industry to empower petty traders.
Source:- Dailytrustng
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