We Don’t Have Money To Dash Out, Says Buhari

We don’t have money to dash out, says Buhari

President
Muhammadu Buhari says his administration has no free money to give to
everybody but it will continue to provide infrastructural facilities to
all parts of the country with the meager resources available.

The
president stated this at the closing ceremony of train the trainer
workshop on voter education organized by the All Progressives Congress
Directorate of Election Planning and Monitoring in Abuja on Monday.

President
Buhari pledged that the APC led administration would continue to build
more roads, rail lines and provide more power for speedy transformation
of the country.

He, therefore, charged participants of the
workshop to convince ordinary voters on the need to vote APC in the
forthcoming elections

He said: “Please try and convince our
ordinary voters for the sacrifice they are making that as far as this
system is concerned we are all the same because I have one vote each.

“Let
them feel they are important enough as Nigerian citizens. Therefore, we
need their support and cooperation, let them come and vote for us.

“We
don’t have money to give everybody. We will use the money for the
provision of infrastructure – we will try and do your roads, we will try
and do the rail and we will improve on power.

“I assure you that I go to bed and wake up thinking about Nigerians and Nigeria.’’

President
Buhari, who expressed optimism that the APC would emerge victorious in
the forthcoming general elections, said the results of the recent
bye-elections conducted in Edo, Ondo, Osun and Ekiti had further boosted
his morale.

“The bye-elections in Kogi and Rivers were
disastrous under the former party leadership as people were killed,
properties lost and I as the President was very uncomfortable and
unhappy.

“But the elections in Edo and Ondo partially resuscitated my morale because we won those elections.

“And then of course, subsequently we have virtually been winning all bye-elections – Ekiti and Osun and so on.

“This
is done not because merely we are in power but because we decided to
rebuild the party from bottom upwards so that people that represent the
party and members of the party at each constituency will know whom they
would trust for nomination as their representatives at local, state and
federal levels.

“These are not there by accident. We sat and
planned them at the hierarchy of the party and I’m very pleased you are
here representing all the constituencies in the country.

“We have no other interest than to serve this country and to serve our people,’’ he said

The
president congratulated the participants for being nominated by the
party in their constituencies to participate in the training programme,
so that they could go back to their respective constituencies and train
others.

In his remarks, the APC Director of Election Planning and
Monitoring, Babatunde Fashola, narrated the achievements of the
governing APC in the over three years it has been in power.

He
explained that the achievements of the party in the period under review
superseded that of the 16 years of People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Fashola,
who is the minister of power, works and housing, disclosed that
beneficiaries of the training programme were expected to train other APC
volunteers at their respective constituencies.

He expressed the
hope that with the training of the APC volunteers at all levels, the
party was poised to emerge with landslide victory at the 2019
elections.(NAN)

Source:- Thenationonlineng