SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, (THEWILL) – President Mohammadu Buhari has re-kindled hope with assurances that Nigeria is being rescued from wreckage as he restated his commitment to implement people-oriented programmes.
The President said this on Thursday while giving a speech at a colloquium organised to mark the birthday of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, in Lagos.
“Our goal is to bring everybody together for mutually beneficial ethnic, economic, social, religion, political and cultural relationship.
“We are determined to invest in people because we depend on people to govern.”
He said although the country and its people are faced with challenges, the government is seeking to improve the ways and means of the collective existence of Nigerians as he stressed that his administration hopes to construct a nation were leaders no longer rule by will but according to the law for the betterment of the people.
“We seek to replace corruption with correctness, insecurity with safety and poverty with prosperity. The road we thread is rough and hard in spots; the search for progress and reforms has its rough patches.
“Many will fight you and connive to deter the match towards a better land, but that march is inevitable. There is no mortal hand that can keep us from our best destiny unless that hand be our own,” he said.
To accomplish the historic mission of his administration, the President emphasised the importance of investing in people, noting that the expenditures made by his administration constitute the investment in and for the people.
He, however, said government depends on the people to govern while highlighting the investment in critical areas of Social Investment Programme and School Feeding Programme among others.
He also congratulated Tinubu on his 66th birthday and commended his contributions to the progress of the nation and Africa at large.
Buhari, who earlier commissioned the Ikeja Bus Terminal designed to handle 200,000 passengers daily, said that the administration would continue to invest in social programmes, including school feeding and agriculture.
“We have set Nigeria on irreversible path of growth and development,” he said.
“We are resolute to uplift our people and make Nigeria a better place.”
