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2019: What Buhari has achieved for Nigeria to deserve re-election - Media Aide

- The National Committee of Buhari Support Groups (NCBSG) on Tuesday, December 11, listed reasons the president should be re-elected in 2019

- The media boss of the NCBSG, Otunba Biodun, said that President Muhammadu Buhari's administration is one of positive continuity

- Biodun said that the president has achieved much in the areas of economy, agriculture, infrastructural, electricity, employment and education

The director of media and publicity of the National Committee of Buhari Support Groups (NCBSG), Otunba Biodun, on Tuesday, December 11, said that in order to consolidate on his many laudable achievements, President Muhammadu Buhari deserves a second term in office.

Speaking to newsmen in Abuja on the good records of the president in terms of economy, agriculture, infrastructural development, electricity, employment and education, Biodun said: "If you study President Buhari in the last three and half years, you will notice that he is one person who believes that Nigeria must have a society, Vanguard reports.

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"Nigeria must build a society, Nigeria must become a society of pride and integrity. And if you want to build a society out of a country like Nigeria, you have to ensure that the foundation is proper and well laid. You will agree with me that overtime, the foundation of Nigeria has not been properly laid. That is a fact we all know.

"The lack of right foundation as a country is the reason why we have no electricity, good roads and infrastructure. It is the reason why we have no infrastructure at all to ride on to ensure a virile society. What this administration has done is to lay a foundation for the country by encouraging local food production.

"A country that cannot feed cannot go into the future. The implication of not being able to feed yourself is that you import everything you eat, which was the situation with Nigeria about three years ago. If a country cannot feed itself, that country has no hope of development.

"President Buhari said, ‘Look, don’t go on a fast-track when you have no stamina to run. Come back, get your stamina right and move’. So, he said Nigeria must be able to feed itself, and the consequence of that is that food production has been boosted by 90 per cent.

"Three years ago, 90 per cent of the food we eat in this country was imported. Today, 90 per cent of the food we eat in Nigeria is being grown in the country. The foundation is laid.

"Rather than abandon all the infrastructural facilities and projects embarked on by the previous governments, Buhari saw the sense in continuing with them because doing so affords him the opportunity to lay a proper foundation in the rail and road network.

"Now, if there is no proper road network, there can never ever be development. And you see that the previous governments had no serious intention to give us good roads. At that time, the national budget for road infrastructure was N18 billion. The Buhari administration has reversed the trend.

"The budget of the Ministry of Works for roads has been increased to N360 billion. With that we can maintain roads and build new ones. If we continue like that for eight years, we would create infrastructural platform to build on. So, talk about power, by the end of 2019, Nigeria will have 10,000 Megawatts of electricity. We are now on 7,000 Megawatts.

"The Mambilla Plateau power project is in top gear. If all these infrastructures come together, we would have built a foundation for Nigeria. That is what this administration would have done in the first four years.

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"After that has been done, we will now move to consolidating on those projects, on those infrastructures, on those foundations we have laid and we will move to something else that will afford the people to live like proper people.

"It is after that that one can boldly say a society has evolved. We will now see that even law enforcement will become better. Nigerians will behave better. Education will go right. Road network will be good.

"There will not be traffic gridlock on the roads, and people will not be wasting hours on the roads. So, this is why we said ‘Consolidation 2019’ is beginning of the journey to consolidate on the foundation we are laying now."

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reporte that some northern leaders had disagreed over the president's decision to seek re-election during the 2019 general elections.

Legit.ng gathered that barely three months to next year’s elections, some northern leaders said that they would not support President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election.

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