Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described as absurd, the lies, propaganda and accusations against President Muhammadu Buhari.
Osinbajo
said on Wednesday night while responding to questions at an Interactive
Session and Engagement held at Muson Centre, Lagos on Wednesday night.
The
interactive session tagged: “Unveiling The Truth”, organised by young
Christian group, had some Christian leaders in attendance.
Participants
used the occasion to ask plenty of questions bothering on insecurity,
economy, blaming of past administrations, social welfare for the
unemployed, corruption, and timing of TraderMoni.
Other questions
bothered on Next Level slogan, farmer/herders crisis, lopsided federal
appointments, Islamisation, Buhari’s commitment to address critical
issues in the country among others.
Responding, Osinbajo said
that President Buhari was committed to addressing the problems facing
the country such as security, economic and fixing critical
infrastructure and fair treatment of all sections.
He said Buhari was addressing farmer/herders crises and had no intention at all to Islamise the country.
“President
Muhammadu is possibly one of the most committed people I have ever met.
He is committed to seeing that resources of this country are used for
this country.
“In general term, we find that there is fairness in
the distribution of appointments. Many of the accusations against
Buhari are not true.
“Sometimes, people listen to propaganda and
if we look at the facts, things are totally different. On Islamisation,
first of all, it is untrue, it is propaganda.
“Anybody who complains that President Buhari is propagating islamic agenda, how is that possible?
“A
lot of these are just propaganda, never listen to these. Many of these
are absurd, they are deliberate propaganda. They come from the same
source. Don’t believe them. Let’s be fair,” Osinbajo said.
The
vice president, who urged Nigerians not to fear or doubt the good
intention of the President, advised Nigerians to stop spreading rumours
about things that never happened.
Osinbajo noted that the major
cause of farmer/herder crisis remained pasture and water which the
government had made concerted efforts to address.
On the lopsided
federal appointments, Osinbajo said that the Southeast with five states
had five had five ministers more than some regions with higher number
of states.
On TraderMoni, he said that the national assembly
approved the money for it and that it was meant to lift many Nigerians
out of poverty.
On the timing of implementation, Osinbajo said
that the government Social Investment Programme kicked off after the
budgetary allocation was passed by the National Assembly.
According to him, the party never promised N5,000 monthly stipends for the unemployed but for the vulnerable which is ongoing.
He
said the government had engaged so many youths in its N-Power programme
and had to increase the number to 1.5 million young Nigerian in the
Next Level out of 1.7 million people churn out of tertiary institutions
every year.
On the standard of tertiary education, Osinbajo said
that the major issue affecting education was not so much with the
curriculum, advocating private sector thinking, ideas to enhance public
education.
He added that the government would continue to create enabling environment and provide funding.
On
criminality, the vice president said that the way forward was local
policing and intelligence as well as immediate arrest and prosecution of
criminals in the country.
On security, he said that the country
had made significant progress and moved forward from what the situation
was before the 2015 general elections.
The vice president said
that the APC Next Level slogan centred on job creation, power, making
credit more available to entrepreneurs, agriculture, infrastructure and
others.
The vice president urged Christian leaders to jettison
thinking about any Islamic agenda and Islamisation, saying many
Christians were in the cabinet of President Buhari.
He said that the media should desist from spreading rumours, decrying fake news about Buhari being another person from Sudan.
Addressing
the question accusation that the present administration often blamed
previous administration, Osinbajo said that the country could not move
forward without considering the past.
According to him,
corruption remains the bane of national growth and development, saying
that most of the woes confronting people are caused by wastefulness of
past governments.
The highlight of the interaction were high
praise led by choir and power-packed prayer for the country and general
elections led by Bishop Wale Oke.
The participants prayed for
God’s mercies on the country and God’s protection on the vice president
especially from the recent air crash.
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