Another Term for Buhari

PUNCH June 22,2018 5:12pm President Muhammadu Buhari deserves to be re - elected to build on the development foundation he laid in the first term. The ministers spoke at the opening of the International Press Institute World Congress 2018 in Abuja on Thursday tagged : Conversation with the Government of Nigeria ’’. The Ministers of Finance , Interior, Information and Culture as well as Trade and Investment were discussants at the event held at the banquet hall of Presidential Villa , Abuja, with international and local media practitioners. Mrs Kemi Adeosun,the Minister of Finance said the President deserved to be re-elected following the administration's achievement in repositioning the economy and putting Nigeria on the path to sustainable growth and recovery. According to her,the nation has never had it so good in terms of its potential to grow and really show what the country can do as its diversified economy that creates opportunities. The Minister of Interior , Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau said a re - election was for continuity because “ Nigeria cannot get anybody better than President Buhari’’ . For the Information Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the administration had delivered on all its promises and deserve a second term. “We promised Nigerians that we were going to fight insecurity, we fought insecurity ; we promised Nigerians that we were going to revive the economy ,we have revamped the economy. “We promised we were going to fight corruption, corruption today is a taboo in Nigeria ,’’ Mohammed said. The Minister of Trade, and Investment, Dr Okechukwu Enelamah added that under the leadership of the President the citizens had changed the conversation in the country.According to him, we are now talking about the importance of security, fighting corruption and good economy “ rather than saying corruption is not a problem, it is not different from stealing ’’., some cabinet ministers said on Thursday in Abuja. Lai,Mohammed added that the country exited recession within two quarters while the country’s stock exchange had grown by more than 40 per cent in recent times. He added that 200,000 jobs were created though the N - power job creation scheme while the administration was feeding 8 .2 million pupils in the school feeding programme. SOURCE: NAN Oyinlola Awonuga