Posted By: Augustine Ehikioyaon
President Muhammadu Buhari pledged yesterday that the change sought by the majority of Nigerian voters, who backed him in the 2015 election, will manifest more and be sustained in different sectors in the new year. He declared in his new year message that the current pains Nigerians are going through are temporary.
His words: “On our part, in the past 20 months since our inauguration on May 29, 2015, we have focused our energies to turn around the economy, create jobs, fight corruption, and transform agriculture to replace oil and gas as a major revenue earner for the nation. I am encouraged that we are getting things right.
“The agricultural revolution has begun. Farmers in different parts of the country are experiencing bumper harvests; states are getting into strategic partnership towards attaining self-sufficiency in rice, and the era of over-dependence on oil for foreign exchange revenues is gradually waning.
“I am optimistic that the CHANGE we all yearned for in voting this administration to power in 2015 will manifest more and be sustained in different sectors, particularly agriculture, in 2017.” He added
Noting that the administration’s economic recovery and growth plan in 2017 is anchored on optimizing the use of local content and empowering local businesses, he urged Nigerians to start patronizing “Made in Nigeria” goods.
He said: “Like I said during the 2017 Budget presentation to the National Assembly, farmers, small and medium-sized manufacturers, agro-allied businesses, dressmakers, entertainers and technology start-ups, will remain the true drivers of our economic future.
“They are the engine of our economic recovery and their needs underpin our Economic Recovery and Growth Plan.”
On job creation, he said, that the administration will sustain existing programmes aimed at lifting great number of Nigerian youth out of poverty. Government, he added, will also create more opportunities for people to fend for themselves.
The President insisted that the administration’s resolve to defeat corruption in the country remains unshaken.
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