Buhari will consolidate, improve on first term performance –Razak

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Lanre Razak, has urged Nigerians to double their support for the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government with a view to assisting it consolidate and improve on its first term satisfactory performance.

Razak who made the appeal at a media chat in Lagos, expressed confidence that, “the Next Level Mantra of the President is real and not an empty slogan,” pointing out that, “some steps Buhari have taken are clear testimony that he is all out to meet the needs and aspirations of the citizenry.”

Buhari’s insistence that all states must pay N30,000 minimum wage for workers is part of his commitment to the welfare of the country’s workforce, he added.

The astute politician said his belief that Buhari would move the country more forward is reinforced by the friendly 9th National Assembly which he stated would not hold the whole country hostage and thereby deny the nation of economic progress and development like the 8th National Assembly.

Citing an example of Buhari’s determination to steer the ship of the country to a successful end, the elder statesman reminded that the President has taken concrete steps to rid the country of all forms of criminalities ranging from banditry, kidnapping, robbery and all forms of insurgence like Boko Haram and cultism.

 “Having realised that the security challenges in the country have external connection and foreign backers, Mr. President has globe trotted to meet with all the Heads of neighbouring countries with the sole aim of squeezing life out of the insurgents from all angles,” Razak disclosed.

According to him, that step was in addition to the meetings with all the stakeholders in the country like the religious leaders, ethnic nationalities leaders, security agencies and other leaders of thoughts, saying, “this all inclusive policy of Buhari has shown him as a leader that has the interest of the country at heart.”

Speaking further, the Epe, Lagos State born community leader said, “Nigerians should continue to appreciate God for giving us Muhammadu Buhari at a time the country needed a Messiah badly,” appealing that, “we should therefore double our supports for him so that he could be encouraged to continue the good work he started four years ago.”

The APC stalwart also appealed to the citizenry to desist from any act that can distract the President from being focused, reminding that leaders can only perform well when they have the right mood in a peaceful environment since no development can take place in a rancorous and chaotic atmosphere.

The former Lagos State Commissioner for Public Transportation expressed delight that Buhari’s foundation- laying first term has got the country out of the 16 years of mess of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), assuring that, he would fulfill his promise of moving the country to the next level.

“I mean next level in education, next level in good infrastructure, next level of good healthcare programme, next level of good agricultural development and programmes for Nigerians and next level of economic buoyancy,” Razak enthused.

On the Ministers designate, the elder statesman express enthusiasm that, the President has walked his talk that he would pick those he knows can do the job to move the country to the enviable height in the comity of nations, saying, “The team he has put together is peopled by tested and trusted hands who knows their onions.”

On the crisis bedeviling the APC in some states in the country, Razak submitted unequivocally that, the party has an effective crisis resolution mechanism that would smoothen all the rough edges in the party, reminding that, the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the man with Midas touch would rally all the stakeholders round to make sure that normalcy returns to all the affected area.

According to him, with Tinubu’s quantum selfless services to humanity and nation building vis a vis restoration of full democracy to the country, he would not allow the party he was strongly involved in building to collapse.

In conclusion, Chief Razak, who is of strong conviction that, governance is not a one man business but a collective responsibility, appealed to all Nigerians home and abroad to rally round Buhari to succeed in the onerous task of moving Nigeria, the Giant of Africa to the next level, reminding that, “nobody can clap with one hand.”