My administration’ll be remembered for fulfilling its promise – Buhari

…Says APC’ll do more by taking Nigeria to the Next Level

…Mr. President has achieved a lot with meager incomes – Tinubu

Mathew Dadiya and Dosuur Iwambe, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari has boasted that history will remember his administration as one that did what it promised and charted the path for a future of which “we can all be proud.” The President said that he has returned the economy to sustainable growth, degraded the Boko Haram terrorists and boldly confronted “the monster called corruption.” Buhari said this on Friday at the presentation of a book, ‘‘Nigeria on Firmer Ground, Towards Lasting Peace and Progress,” held at the State House Conference Hall, Abuja. He reiterated that riding on the wave of the “Change Agenda” which the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration anchored on making positive impact in the three priority areas of security, economy and fighting corruption, he was convinced that the government has made “real progress and we are poised to do more by taking Nigeria to the Next Level of development, prosperity, peace and stability.” The President said that they were also poised to make life-changing progress in infrastructure, agriculture, social investments, and much more. Buhari said: “Going round the country in the past weeks on our campaign stops, I believe that our message emphasising the need to stick to the winning team and not risk returning our country to irresponsible leadership, at any level of government, has resonated with the people”. The President commended the Presidential Media Team, the Buhari Media Organisation and other stakeholders for helping Nigerians to understand more of what this administration has done by producing the book, and presenting it to the public. “Coming just a week to the commencement of the 2019 general election, there is no doubt that today’s event is very significant as the electorate is being offered more insights into the achievements of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration since we came to office in 2015. “From the accounts of all the earlier speakers and what can be gleaned from the book, supported by verifiable facts and figures on projects and programmes implemented in almost every state of the Federation, it is clear that our administration has delivered substantially on our campaign promises. “Their stock-in-trade is the avaricious plunder of our national assets and resources, and ordinary Nigerians are quite aware of their conduct in government. “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 stated. President Buhari therefore urged all Nigerians to exercise their civic duty in an atmosphere of peace and security as they choose their leaders and representatives in the next few weeks. “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 added. Earlier speaking, the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, commended President Buhari for his astute leadership, saying that the President has achieved a lot in his time in office despite “our strained financial condition due to shrunken oil prices.” According to Tinubu, 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. “Our party, the APC is a party of compassion and progressivism. Despite the relatively meagre revenues of this government compared to prior governments, the Buhari administration set out to do what the other governments cared not to do. That is to give direct care to the nation’s poorest and most put upon citizens. “Let our economy stand on its own feet and not be overly beholden to motorists in New York City, London or Paris. I believe such sovereign economics are, in the long term, the soundest economics,” the National Leader added.