President Muhammadu Buhari has warned politicians to conduct their
electioneering with decorum and avoid setting the county ablaze.
“We have no other country, let us not
set it ablaze because of politics,” he also told supporters of the governing
All Progressives Congress (APC), top party officials and government
functionaries, when he kicked off his campaign for re-election in 2019,
with the launch of a “Campaign Manual/Next Level document” at the State
House Conference Centre, Abuja, yesterday.
“I am not unmindful
that the National Assembly and the presidential campaign starts today; I
will implore candidates to go about the campaigns peacefully and
decently.”
Buhari said his biggest ambition is to overhaul the education sector.
“Every
child counts – and simply, whatever it takes to prepare our teachers,
curriculum and classrooms to attain the right educational goals that
grow our country will be done. We will remodel 10,000 schools every year
and retain our teachers to impart science, technology, engineering, art
and mathematics using coding, animation, robotics to reinterpret our
curriculum.”
He described corruption as an existential threat to Nigeria.
“Despite
the gains we have made in closing the gates, we know that there is
still much ground to cover to stop the systemic corruption. We are
committed to deepening the work we started this first term such that the
nation’s assets and resources continue to be organised and utilised to
do good for the common man.
“The next four years will be quite
significant for our country. Nigeria is faced with a choice to keep
building a new Nigeria – making a break from its tainted past, which
favoured an opportunistic few.
“Our choices will shape us – our
economic security and our future prosperity. Nigeria, more than ever
before, needs a stable and people-focused government to move the agenda
for our country forward.”
President Muhammadu Buhari also stated that his
administration has delivered on its three campaign promises of fighting
corruption, insecurity and revamping the economy.
