President Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday, reassured Nigerians that the 2019 elections will be free and fair.
President Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Defence, Brigadier General Monsur Dan Ali (rtd) gave the assurance in Jos at the graduation ceremony of Senior Executive Course 40, 2018 of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau State.
“We as a government also wish to reiterate our commitment to ensuring that the elections are free, fair and credible as part of measures to deepen our democracy,
“As we prepare for the forthcoming elections in 2019, Nigerians are once again enjoined to exercise their civic obligation as stakeholders in our development project,” he said.
The president, who said that his administration was committed to good governance, also disclosed that the ranking of Nigeria has improved tremendously in the ease of doing business by the World Bank, with the foreign reserve now $44 billion in the last five years.
“We have reduced rice importation by 90 per cent and increased our capacity to produce fertiliser locally. Moreover, we have tremendously improved on our ranking in the ease of doing business by the World Bank. Our foreign reserves is now USD 44 billion, the highest in the last five years. The implication of these is that Nigeria remains the strongest economy on the African continent due to the policies put in place by this government,” he said
He explained further that the administration on assuming office in 2015 met an economy in a shambles as a result of widespread corruption and mismanagement of the national commonwealth, compounded by a sharp drop in the prices of oil.
According to him, the government inherited an empty treasury, depleted foreign reserves, poor and dilapidated infrastructure, huge capital and current liabilities, food import dependency, long-standing insurgency, myriads of internal security challenges and a situation where many state governments owed workers’ salaries.
“These inherited circumstances put us under extreme difficulty, particularly when measured against the expectations of Nigerians who voted for us expecting a better governance. We had to develop and implement some policies that would quickly get us out of this unsavory situation.
“To address the problems fundamentally, we put in place several policy frameworks, the major one being the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), which laid out the strategy for achieving the government’s vision of sustained and inclusive growth,” he explained.
The ERGP provided the framework for short term recovery and structural reforms aimed at diversifying the economy to set it on a path of sustainable growth over the medium and long term. We took further measures including the Executive Order on Ease of Doing Business to address identified bottlenecks,” he stated.
In his welcome address, Acting Director General of NIPSS, Mr. Jonathan Mela Juma disclosed that for the first time, the participants’ research projects were subjected to ‘originality test,’ the essence of which, according to him, was to improve the quality and professionalism of the participants’ research projects.
Juma added that all the participants’ research projects met the originality test criteria. He recalled that last week, the participants, led by the management team, successfully presented to President Muhammadu Buhari, the theme of the entire course.
He pointed out that the president thereafter directed the relevant government agencies to renew recommendations of the report for implementation, appreciating him for giving them the opportunity to contribute to policy formulation which is national life, particularly within the context of the ongoing efforts to contain the numerous challenges facing the nation.
He asserted that no nation can develop its food potentials without well-thought out implemented policy frame work of the country. “Indeed, a nation is as strong as a foundation of which its policy thrust fundamentals are laid. It was for this reason that NIPSS was founded in 1979 as the apex policy think-tank and policy development in all areas of national life as it trains the nation’s elite on issues of policy formulation and implementation.”
Juma stressed that the aim of the National Institute has been to produce first class technocrats who are capable of responding to present and future national challenges, pointing out that the Institute in the past 40 years, has worked assiduously to fulfil its mandate through high-level programmes and policy research.
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Buhari wants to declare All elections in Nigeria as ‘inconclusive’ until APC wins all…..!
If Buhari could forge his own waec certificate why should we believe that he can conduct a credible election in 2019?
Buhari is planning to rig 2019 election by not using e-voting. There must be e-voting! This INEC chairman has no credibility.
INEC must follow electoral act. INEC cannot take independent decision outside the electoral act. If they need time, they will be given time…..but to dump electoral act is criminal and the INEC chairman must be locked up for disobeying the law.
‘Not using e-voting,’ is Buhari’s plan to rig 2019 election. NASS must stand up to this impunity.
Predetermined outcome for Buhari’s success in 2019 is fraud. It is corruption. It is impunity. Why declare votes before election. Who does that?
So much impunity in Buhari’s corrupt administration.
Thank God. Finally senate overrides Buhari on electoral act, passed the bill, now closing the gap for corruption and election result mutilation. God bless saraki and the good people of Nigeria.
Buhari, stop deceiving the international community that the election Will be free and fair. You could have chosen to honourable sign the electoral act, instead you did the reverse.
Already INEC chairman is a criminal, he must be arrested. He cannot conduct a free and fair elections.
1. He falsified documents of kogi electorate and forged their signatures just to get at Dino
2. He rigging Ekiti state elections with 30,000 Nigerian police officers.
3. He attempted to stop issuing PVCs when he realized that north had collected more PVCs than south.
4. He Covered up for underage voters in North.
5. He wants to use N6billion to feed police in 2019 elections when the same money can pay police salaries and pension for one year, to reduce police misconduct. This is the same police he used to rig elections in ekiti state.
6. INEC connived with touts to sell PVCs to individuals at N1,500 in lagos. Go to Ikorodu INEC office and you will not be disappointed. How is this INEC chairman credible?
7. After cancelling so many viable votes, and sending INEC official to tear ballot papers of Adeleke’s votes, Adeleke of PDP still won the election. Yet INEC, with all its impunity and corruption refused to declare Adeleke winner. Osibanjo shamelessly called the INEC official while he was still addressing the press to declare the election inconclusive. Thank God for stored call logs on cell phones. Shame on these thieves.
8. Instead Buhari sends Nigeria military to terrorize osun state and hand over the state to APC. This is not democracy. Democracy was when Adeleke of PDP won the election in a leveled playing field and without the intimidation of the police and military.
9. Buhari sends military and police to intimidate, arrest, incarcerate and assult PDP candidates and voters to win bye election in kwara, bauchi, kogi States etc. Nigeria has been militarized by Buhari in a democratic Nigerian state. The international community must not be deceived. There is no free, fair and credible election in Nigeria anymore.
10. CSOs raise alarm over purchase of PVCs from their owners in Kano state. Yet corrupt INEC is deaf and blind to it. Perhaps this is the 2.9million voter who would likely vote for Buhari. This is what the governor of Kano state was referring to, when he said that 1.2million votes are ready for Buhari.
11. Judiciary under Buhari is enabling corruption and encouraging impunity. Why is the tribunal speaking the same language of lies as those who rigged elections?
12. INEC is blind to secret purchase of PVCs for IDPs and others in benue state.
13. ETC
Our votes are not safe with this corrupt criminal called INEC chairman. He must be arrested. This man is unfit to conduct a free and fair elections. He is working for corrupt Buhari and not for Nigeria.
Soldiers were busy rigging election for buhari in ekiti, osun, kwara, bauchi etc and they forgot the were supposed to be soldiers fighting terrorists.
Buhari is not aware that those service chiefs did not carry out his instructions. Imagine how many fathers, uncles, brothers, nephews etc have be wasted….! Those families are still crying…..what a waste! Buhari must go.
Dictator in the making…..! NASS stop this tyrant called Buhari…..!
Is this how Buhari is going to behave in his 2nd term? No way, Buhari must go…!
Shithole trump is right about shithole Nigeria with its shithole president and his shithole government.
What difference does it make? Does Buhari care about Nigerians’ lives? He only mourns when an old retired general or friend dies and when northerners drown. For the rest of the country he does not care:
1. He sends military to torture and kill southerners.
2. He lock up a few Boko boys and releases the rest to continue havoc. 3yrs ongoing and Boko Haram is not defeated. Then he loots $1billion (almost of excess crude) to fight the same Boko Haram which he had declared technically defeated. Boko Haram has become a business venture. He paid Boko boys £3million to release Dapchi girls. Where is the money?
3. He cares less about Nigerian hospitals. Instead goes abroad for treatment. Even Aso rock clinic by his house has been looted.
4. He says nothing about rampant fulani herdsmen killing southerners because he only cares about his people.
5. He tells world Bank to concentrate only on his people (northerner). North is now the NEW NIGERIA. South is not part of Nigeria.
6. People are committing suicide everyday because they cannot afford a meal in a day, yet looters and corrupt politicians and governors are sharing money in NNPC, senate, house of reps, FG and bailout funds.
7. He has no foreign policy to protect Nigerian citizens abroad because he has no interest in that. The two reasons for his foreign trips are to attend to his health and to beg countries to release looted money.
8. He says that it is sound political expediency to concentrate on 97% of northerners who voted for him than to focus on the 5% south who voted for him, thus dividing the country into north and south, and 97% vs 5%
9. Corruption war targets opposition party and politicians of southern origin who criticize his poor performance. Maina, Baru, Dr. Saadu, etc cannot be held accountable. EFCC selectively probes ‘Buhari’s enemies’
10. Ruling as a dictator, Buhari attempted to take away our rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression to prevent Nigerians from criticizing a poorly performing administration.
11. All they do is lies lies lies lies lies lies lies. They lie about everything. Lie about defeating Boko Haram, lie about recovering from recession, lie about the economy, lie about reasons for borrowing, lie about fulfilling campaign promises, even lie about jellof rice, etc, lol, an average of 5 lies per day. Buhari and his APC are liars.
12. He sends 30,000 Nigerian police officers to intimidate Ekiti citizens to win elections .
15. He uses military to deny access to chartered aircraft carrying Afenefere, Pandef, ohaneze etc who were to attend a meeting on restructuring in venue state. Such tyranny……!
Buhari is a bigot and so ethnocentric.
This is buhari’s style of governance.
These actions are responsible for more Nigerian deaths than the killing of Nigerians abroad.
There is nothing that happens in this administration which does not have president’s approval. I mean nothing. This is how Buhari’s presidency is designed. I just feel sad when people make excuses for buhari.
Buhari is just as corrupt. Period. We have only started realizing it now. If this was military regime, he would have killed so many people already.
It’s useless and unthinkable to vote Buhari and APC for 2nd term. Buhari and APC have epitomized corruption. He has become the number one citizen of corruption. They have messed up Nigeria. It’s enough.
I Don’t want Buhari with his corrupt APC to:
A. Send more military to south to kill us anymore or
B. Send more fulani herdsmen to kill southerners anymore or
C. Send more hausas to kill Christians anymore.
Wicked corrupt bigot Buhari and his criminal APC must go.
The Nigerian population is now the opposition. We are not dead. We are very much alive and in 2019 we will prove that we are alive. This is beyond PDP now.
1. You may not be hungry during this corrupt and clueless administration but there are so many hungry Nigerians who can no longer afford a meal in a day, roaming the streets in all 36 states who are desperately waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
2. There are families who have been killed by fulani herds men, who are also waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
3. There are so many unemployed people roaming the streets, who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
4. There are people whose relatives and friends have committed suicide because of hardship, who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019
5. There are many business people who are out of business today because of hardship, who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
6. There is a large population of people who do not like Buhari’s dictatorship and who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019
7. There is also the opposition whose members have been persecuted by Buhari and who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019
8. All those Christians who have lost family members and friends because of Buhari’s complicity to Muslim killings are waiting to vote Buhari’s out in 2019.
9. All friends and family members of victims of operation crocodile tears, operation python dance, operation octopus, etc are all waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
10. Remember the 97% north and 5% south who voted for Buhari? Yes, the 95% south are still waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
11. There are 40million mad Nigerians ready to vote Buhari out in 2019.
12. Etc
So this is not fantasy. This is not a dream. This is real. Nigerian are keeping careful record of all that Buhari is doing.
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Buhari wants to declare All elections in Nigeria as ‘inconclusive’ until APC wins all…..!
If Buhari could forge his own waec certificate why should we believe that he can conduct a credible election in 2019?
Buhari is planning to rig 2019 election by not using e-voting. There must be e-voting! This INEC chairman has no credibility.
INEC must follow electoral act. INEC cannot take independent decision outside the electoral act. If they need time, they will be given time…..but to dump electoral act is criminal and the INEC chairman must be locked up for disobeying the law.
‘Not using e-voting,’ is Buhari’s plan to rig 2019 election. NASS must stand up to this impunity.
Predetermined outcome for Buhari’s success in 2019 is fraud. It is corruption. It is impunity. Why declare votes before election. Who does that?
So much impunity in Buhari’s corrupt administration.
Thank God. Finally senate overrides Buhari on electoral act, passed the bill, now closing the gap for corruption and election result mutilation. God bless saraki and the good people of Nigeria.
Buhari, stop deceiving the international community that the election Will be free and fair. You could have chosen to honourable sign the electoral act, instead you did the reverse.
Already INEC chairman is a criminal, he must be arrested. He cannot conduct a free and fair elections.
1. He falsified documents of kogi electorate and forged their signatures just to get at Dino
2. He rigging Ekiti state elections with 30,000 Nigerian police officers.
3. He attempted to stop issuing PVCs when he realized that north had collected more PVCs than south.
4. He Covered up for underage voters in North.
5. He wants to use N6billion to feed police in 2019 elections when the same money can pay police salaries and pension for one year, to reduce police misconduct. This is the same police he used to rig elections in ekiti state.
6. INEC connived with touts to sell PVCs to individuals at N1,500 in lagos. Go to Ikorodu INEC office and you will not be disappointed. How is this INEC chairman credible?
7. After cancelling so many viable votes, and sending INEC official to tear ballot papers of Adeleke’s votes, Adeleke of PDP still won the election. Yet INEC, with all its impunity and corruption refused to declare Adeleke winner. Osibanjo shamelessly called the INEC official while he was still addressing the press to declare the election inconclusive. Thank God for stored call logs on cell phones. Shame on these thieves.
8. Instead Buhari sends Nigeria military to terrorize osun state and hand over the state to APC. This is not democracy. Democracy was when Adeleke of PDP won the election in a leveled playing field and without the intimidation of the police and military.
9. Buhari sends military and police to intimidate, arrest, incarcerate and assult PDP candidates and voters to win bye election in kwara, bauchi, kogi States etc. Nigeria has been militarized by Buhari in a democratic Nigerian state. The international community must not be deceived. There is no free, fair and credible election in Nigeria anymore.
10. CSOs raise alarm over purchase of PVCs from their owners in Kano state. Yet corrupt INEC is deaf and blind to it. Perhaps this is the 2.9million voter who would likely vote for Buhari. This is what the governor of Kano state was referring to, when he said that 1.2million votes are ready for Buhari.
11. Judiciary under Buhari is enabling corruption and encouraging impunity. Why is the tribunal speaking the same language of lies as those who rigged elections?
12. INEC is blind to secret purchase of PVCs for IDPs and others in benue state.
13. ETC
Our votes are not safe with this corrupt criminal called INEC chairman. He must be arrested. This man is unfit to conduct a free and fair elections. He is working for corrupt Buhari and not for Nigeria.
Soldiers were busy rigging election for buhari in ekiti, osun, kwara, bauchi etc and they forgot the were supposed to be soldiers fighting terrorists.
Buhari is not aware that those service chiefs did not carry out his instructions. Imagine how many fathers, uncles, brothers, nephews etc have be wasted….! Those families are still crying…..what a waste! Buhari must go.
Dictator in the making…..! NASS stop this tyrant called Buhari…..!
Is this how Buhari is going to behave in his 2nd term? No way, Buhari must go…!
Shithole trump is right about shithole Nigeria with its shithole president and his shithole government.
What difference does it make? Does Buhari care about Nigerians’ lives? He only mourns when an old retired general or friend dies and when northerners drown. For the rest of the country he does not care:
1. He sends military to torture and kill southerners.
2. He lock up a few Boko boys and releases the rest to continue havoc. 3yrs ongoing and Boko Haram is not defeated. Then he loots $1billion (almost of excess crude) to fight the same Boko Haram which he had declared technically defeated. Boko Haram has become a business venture. He paid Boko boys £3million to release Dapchi girls. Where is the money?
3. He cares less about Nigerian hospitals. Instead goes abroad for treatment. Even Aso rock clinic by his house has been looted.
4. He says nothing about rampant fulani herdsmen killing southerners because he only cares about his people.
5. He tells world Bank to concentrate only on his people (northerner). North is now the NEW NIGERIA. South is not part of Nigeria.
6. People are committing suicide everyday because they cannot afford a meal in a day, yet looters and corrupt politicians and governors are sharing money in NNPC, senate, house of reps, FG and bailout funds.
7. He has no foreign policy to protect Nigerian citizens abroad because he has no interest in that. The two reasons for his foreign trips are to attend to his health and to beg countries to release looted money.
8. He says that it is sound political expediency to concentrate on 97% of northerners who voted for him than to focus on the 5% south who voted for him, thus dividing the country into north and south, and 97% vs 5%
9. Corruption war targets opposition party and politicians of southern origin who criticize his poor performance. Maina, Baru, Dr. Saadu, etc cannot be held accountable. EFCC selectively probes ‘Buhari’s enemies’
10. Ruling as a dictator, Buhari attempted to take away our rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression to prevent Nigerians from criticizing a poorly performing administration.
11. All they do is lies lies lies lies lies lies lies. They lie about everything. Lie about defeating Boko Haram, lie about recovering from recession, lie about the economy, lie about reasons for borrowing, lie about fulfilling campaign promises, even lie about jellof rice, etc, lol, an average of 5 lies per day. Buhari and his APC are liars.
12. He sends 30,000 Nigerian police officers to intimidate Ekiti citizens to win elections .
15. He uses military to deny access to chartered aircraft carrying Afenefere, Pandef, ohaneze etc who were to attend a meeting on restructuring in venue state. Such tyranny……!
Buhari is a bigot and so ethnocentric.
This is buhari’s style of governance.
These actions are responsible for more Nigerian deaths than the killing of Nigerians abroad.
There is nothing that happens in this administration which does not have president’s approval. I mean nothing. This is how Buhari’s presidency is designed. I just feel sad when people make excuses for buhari.
Buhari is just as corrupt. Period. We have only started realizing it now. If this was military regime, he would have killed so many people already.
It’s useless and unthinkable to vote Buhari and APC for 2nd term. Buhari and APC have epitomized corruption. He has become the number one citizen of corruption. They have messed up Nigeria. It’s enough.
I Don’t want Buhari with his corrupt APC to:
A. Send more military to south to kill us anymore or
B. Send more fulani herdsmen to kill southerners anymore or
C. Send more hausas to kill Christians anymore.
Wicked corrupt bigot Buhari and his criminal APC must go.
The Nigerian population is now the opposition. We are not dead. We are very much alive and in 2019 we will prove that we are alive. This is beyond PDP now.
1. You may not be hungry during this corrupt and clueless administration but there are so many hungry Nigerians who can no longer afford a meal in a day, roaming the streets in all 36 states who are desperately waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
2. There are families who have been killed by fulani herds men, who are also waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
3. There are so many unemployed people roaming the streets, who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
4. There are people whose relatives and friends have committed suicide because of hardship, who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019
5. There are many business people who are out of business today because of hardship, who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
6. There is a large population of people who do not like Buhari’s dictatorship and who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019
7. There is also the opposition whose members have been persecuted by Buhari and who are waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019
8. All those Christians who have lost family members and friends because of Buhari’s complicity to Muslim killings are waiting to vote Buhari’s out in 2019.
9. All friends and family members of victims of operation crocodile tears, operation python dance, operation octopus, etc are all waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
10. Remember the 97% north and 5% south who voted for Buhari? Yes, the 95% south are still waiting to vote Buhari out in 2019.
11. There are 40million mad Nigerians ready to vote Buhari out in 2019.
12. Etc
So this is not fantasy. This is not a dream. This is real. Nigerian are keeping careful record of all that Buhari is doing.
Story for the gods, pls which buhari?
Buhari must go, you need not contest . Go back home. Withdraw your candidacy , on, match to your village.
Are u Aishas Husband ?
What do you know about Daura.?
Who are your school mates ?
We are living in your lies and conspiracy.
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Buhari can’t conduct free and fair election. They always copy the bad ruling of PDP. With my own view PDP is far more better than APC.
This is jubril from Sudan ….Stop deciving Nigerians…We are not voting in 2019 election…of what benefits is Nigeria election to people living in Nigeria… Ur children schooling in abroad.. medical abroad..bank account abroad….. Nonsense ….No election..
Tell that to the marines you evil man
Another big lie from the pit of hell.
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Can nigrns be carried away by such promises? Ekiti and Osun State elections in mind, even ordinary bye- elections in Kwara…..there must be decency in any human commerce