Group drums support for Buhari’s Presidency

The Buhari Osibanjo Mandate Group,  one of the several support groups working for the reelection of President Muhammadu Buhari, has said that Nigerians must support the President to lead the country to what they called the promise land devoid of money politics.

National Coordinator of the group, Prince Europe Martins, said at a news conference in Abuja that Nigerians must be careful not to hand over the country to desperate politicians who spend billions of naira to secure nomination as presidential candidate, saying, “What do you expect if such a person is voted in to govern this country?”

He asked Nigerians to select the best among the presidential candidates who has the interest of the nation at heart and not those who are desperate for power but lack the integrity to govern a country like Nigeria.

He called on all Nigerians to support President Buhari’s administration in his drive to ensure infrastructural development in the country.

Martins said: “Countries all over the world, including China and Dubai, are able to succeed because of their ability to put in place proper infrastructure, and it is on record that none of them was able to do this within four years.

“The good news for Nigeria is that President Buhari has started putting together proper infrastructure for the country. “

According to him, Nigeria had the largest number of abandoned projects before the coming of the Buhari government,  stressing that the current government has started completing those projects because of his belief that they are important to the overall development of the country.

While commending the government for the take off of the Mambilla Hydro power project,  Prince Martins reminded Nigerians how the previous governments wasted 16 billion dollars on power project without anything too show for it while the Buhari government has raised power generation too about 7000 megawatts.

He said that the social intervention programmes of the government are not popular because they are targeted at the poor and not the rich.

Also speaking at the event,  leader of the South East Forum, Chief Ansleem Njoku, said every sensible Igboman with the interest of the people at heart know that a Buhari second term is the only guarantee for an Igboman presidency in 2013.

He pledged that the South East would give the President an overwhelming support because he is the only president has genuinely addressed the marginalisation of the Igbo nation through infrastructural development and the payment of pension to retired Biafran soldiers.

He challenge other political parties to an open debate regarding the provision of infrastructure for the South East,  saying: “They should come out and tell us what they have been able to do for the South East over the years despite our support and we will show them what President Buhari has been able to do for the South East in just three and a half years despite not voting for him in 2015.”