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President Buhari Pours Encomium On Self In His Broadcast Speech To The Nation...

He highlighted 50 points and number and number 21 is interesting.....







HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI'S BROADCAST TO THE NATION, FEBRUARY 14, 2019


Fellow Citizens,

On Saturday, February 16, 2019, you will, once again, be called upon to choose the leaders who will pilot the affairs of our great nation for the next four years. This is a constitutional right which should be freely exercised by all eligible voters.


2. I wish therefore to start by assuring all Nigerians that this Government will do its very best to ensure that the 2019 elections take place in a secure and peaceful atmosphere.


3. It was indeed such free, fair and peaceful elections that made it possible for our Government to emerge, despite the fact that we were contesting against a long-standing incumbent party.


4. And as your president and a fellow Nigerian, I ask that you come out and queue to fulfill this important obligation you have to yourselves and your fellow citizens and to our common future.


5. Let me at this point, reaffirm the commitment of the Federal Government to the conduct of free and fair elections in a safe and peaceful atmosphere. Just yesterday, I signed the Peace Accord alongside 72 other presidential candidates.


6. I want to assure all Nigerians, the diplomatic community and all foreign election observers of their safety and full protection. Any comments or threats of intimidation from any source do not represent the position of the Federal Government of Nigeria.


7. As Government has a critical role in maintaining the democratic traditions, so do citizens. I therefore urge you all, as good Nigerians, to take a personal interest in promoting and maintaining peace in your respective neighbourhoods during the elections. This is certainly not a time to allow personal, religious, sectional or party interests to drive us to desperation.



8. At this point, I want to make a special appeal to our youth: Do not allow yourselves to be used to cause violence and destruction. The people who want to incite you are those preparing the ground for discrediting the elections. Having lost the argument, they fear losing the elections.


9. When you elected me in 2015, it was essentially in consequence of my promise of CHANGE. We committed ourselves to improving security across the country, putting the economy on a sound footing and tackling rampant corruption, which had in many ways become a serious drawback to national development.



10. Our Government spent the last 3 years and 9 months striving faithfully to keep this promise, in spite of very serious revenue shortages caused mainly by a sharp drop in international oil prices and an unexpected rise in the vandalisation of oil installations, which, mercifully have now been curtailed.


11. We nevertheless pressed on in our quest to diversify the economy, create jobs, reduce commodity prices and generally improve the standard of living among our people.


12. The damage that insecurity and corruption have done, over time, to our collective livelihood is incalculable. However, it is pleasing to note that our frontal attack on these twin evils is gaining momentum and bringing about visible progress.


13. The recovery of the economy from recession is complete and Nigeria is back on the path of steady growth.


14. The key to creating more jobs lies in accelerating this momentum of economic growth. Happily, we have succeeded in making the fundamental changes necessary for this acceleration, and we are now beginning to see the efforts bearing fruit.



15. Our ease of doing business policies and programmes are already impacting medium, small and micro industries, as well as Manufacturing, Mining and Agriculture, among other key sectors.


16. Our commitment to critical infrastructure, that is Roads, Rails, Bridges, Airports and Seaports i will create more jobs, improving the efficiency and competitiveness of our industries.



17. Many of these projects are at different stages of completion, and those who use them regularly will attest to the fact that even while construction is ongoing, they are beginning to see reduced travel times. This will ultimately translate to reduced costs and greater convenience, making transportation, and business in particular, much easier.


19. The economic recovery that we promised is well underway, as demonstrated by the recently released statistics. In 2018, the economy grew by 1.93%, with the Fourth Quarter growth being 2.38%, up from 1.81% in the Third Quarter.



20. Remarkably, the strong economic performance was driven by the Non-Oil sector, which grew at 2% as at full year. Indeed, Non-Oil growth rose to 2.7% in the Fourth Quarter of 2018, up from 2.32% in the Third Quarter. These results further underscore our commitment to diversifying the economy away from the past dependence on Oil.


21. Other indicators confirm the economy's steady recovery. Our monthly food import bill has declined from $664 million in January 2015 to $160 million as at October 2018. Inflation fell from 18.72% in January 2017 to 11.44% in December 2018. Our External Reserves have risen from $23 billion in October 2016 to $43.12 billion as at 7th February 2019.


22. Now that the recession is well behind us, our next task is to redouble our efforts, accelerate the growth and use it to create even more jobs for our people.


23. The Executive Orders, No. 5, and No. 7 issued by me, and the recently approved National Infrastructure Maintenance Policy demonstrate our commitment to accelerated job creation and infrastructure development.


24. We believe that Governments cannot simply proclaim jobs into existence. Job creation will only expand as a result of economic policies that enable the private sector to flourish, and this is the approach our Administration has taken.


25. Executive Order No 5, which Promotes Nigerian Content in Contracts, as well as Science, Engineering and Technology, will preserve and prioritize job creation for our citizens.


26. Executive Order 7, on the Road Infrastructure Development and Refurbishment Investment Tax Credit Scheme, seeks to mobilize private capital and capacity for infrastructure development.


27. It responds to the demands of manufacturing and industrial complexes which wish to construct access roads without waiting for government, so long as they are allowed to recover the cost from taxes they would have paid to government.


28. We expect that this approach will boost industrial expansion and rural development, consequently creating more jobs for our people.


29. Similarly, our recently issued Maintenance Policy targets artisans, carpenters, welders, tailors, painters, bricklayers, electricians, plumbers, landscapers and many more Ordinary Nigerians at the base of our economic pyramid who will get regular and large-scale opportunities to improve themselves.


30. It is an economic solution that also brings the relevant artisans and professionals into long term sustainable employment to maintain our Schools, Court Rooms, Hospitals, Police Stations, Federal Secretariats and other Public Buildings.


31. Human Capital Development has also been a key priority for this Administration, which has increased investments in health and education. Innovative measures have been introduced to complement the traditional budgetary allocations to the relevant Ministries.


32. For instance, Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority has invested US$21 million in three healthcare projects as a Public Private Partnership with three Federal medical institutions. These include two modern Medical Diagnostic Centres located at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano and the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia; as well as one outpatient Cancer Treatment Centre in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos which I commissioned on 9th February 2019.


33. Of course, our radical commitment to developing Critical Infrastructure is the foundation upon which we will deliver an all embracing national prosperity and a shared commonwealth.


34. There is no country that aspires to greatness without spending massively on its Critical Infrastructure. Rather than the discredited policy of stomach infrastructure, which could only benefit a few for a little while, we are focused on real infrastructural development for the growth of our economy and the long-term benefit of all Nigerians.


35. When you voted for our message of CHANGE, you invited us to assume office and depart from that bad and most regrettable choice. We have responded by making a choice for real infrastructure of Roads in every State, Housing in 34 States, Power Stations across Nigeria, Rail from Lagos to Kano.
36. The choice that now confronts us is whether we want to continue with real infrastructure development, which is the road to prosperity and jobs or return to the era of stomach infrastructure.


37. Agricultural Self-Reliance and Food Security is also a choice we made in fulfilment of your mandate for change.


38. Our Presidential Fertiliser Initiative has resulted in savings of US$150 million in foreign exchange due to local sourcing of inputs at 16 Blending Plants. It has also conserved N60 billion in Subsidies as well as supported tens of thousands of farmers and agro-dealers nationwide.


39. Our Anchor Borrowers Programme has substantially raised local rice yields from as low as two Metric Tonnes per hectare, to as high as eight Metric Tonnes per hectare.


40. Through this programme, the Central Bank of Nigeria has cumulatively lent over N120 billion to over 720,000 smallholder farmers cultivating 12 commodities across the 36 States and Abuja. Targeted crops and livestock have included cattle, poultry, fish, cassava, soybeans, ground nut, ginger, sorghum, rice, wheat, cotton and maize.


41. As a result, we have seen a remarkable rise in the production of key agricultural commodities. I am pleased to note that in major departmental stores and local markets, there has been a surge in the supply of high quality Nigerian agricultural produce.


42. Behind each of these products, are thousands of industrious Nigerians working in factories and farms across the nation. Our interventions have led to improved wealth and job creation for these Nigerians, particularly in our rural communities.


43. Again, these outcomes have been a major departure from the previous focus on consuming imported food items, which literally exported our children's jobs to food-exporting nations, whilst depleting our precious foreign exchange reserves. This, of course, caused a closure of our factories while keeping open other peoples factories.


44. The choice made by this Administration to assist farmers directly and promote agriculture in every way possible has gone a long way to enhance our food security while enabling us to tackle poverty by feeding over nine million children daily under our Home-Grown School Feeding Programme. It also puts us clearly on the road to becoming a food secure and agriculture exporting nation.


45. Next to Agriculture, we are focusing on Manufacturing Sector. The Purchasing Managers Index, which is the measure of manufacturing activities in an economy has risen for 22 consecutive months as at January this year, indicating continuous growth and expansion in our manufacturing sector.


46. I will conclude by going back to where I started: that our choices have had consequences about employment and cost of living.


47. In making your choice this time, please ask yourself whether, and in what ways, others will do anything different to address the issues of Agriculture, Infrastructure, Security, Good Governance and Fighting Corruption.


48. If they are only hoping to do what we are already doing successfully, we are clearly your preferred choice.


49. Think carefully and choose wisely. This time, it is a choice about consolidating on growth for Jobs and Prosperity.


50. February 16th is all about a choice. But it is more than a choice between APC and the opposition. It is a choice about you, it is a choice between going back or keeping the momentum of CHANGE.


51. The road to greater prosperity for Nigeria may be long, but what you can be assured of is a Leadership that is not prepared to sacrifice the future well-being of Nigerians for our own personal or material needs. You can be assured of my commitment to remain focused on working to improve the lives of all Nigerians.


52. Thank you very much for listening. God bless you, and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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39 comments:

  1. How come he is the one praising himself? Another level of scam but this time around, Nigerians are wise and won't fall for it.

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    1. keep calm.you are the one that is foolish.lets prove.you support kanu,kanu proves by the day to be a scam.you fell for the no waec,dead,jubrin and islamization scandal..and all were all false.so who is foolish now? and who fell for the scam? you TJ.cover yoyr head in shame.you fall my hands.you not smart at all.You and your party.i pity you because you all stand no chance.you all proved to be stupud with hate and lies.that alone killed your partt chances of winning.Truth must prevail.truth is light.

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    2. LMFAO... You haven't started feeling pained. What happened to your 'dampener' lolzzz. I would have suggested that your brain be used as an experiment on the laboratory for possible solution to insanity cure but I am afraid it will worsen the whole situation.

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    3. Why are you running away from commenting on the nnamdi kanu’s post? Scared people will bash you? Lol.

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    4. I have NEVER seen a man this FOOLISH !!!!!! Never seen a man this DUNB !!!!!! Never seen a man this INCOMPETENT !!!!!!! BUHARI pls go back to DAURA haba !!!!!!! Is this too much for us to ask ????????? Is it until war breaks out in Nigeria that you will understand ????? Or when treating you politicians with ** jungle justice ** that you will understand ???? Pls go home !!!!!! ATIKU is our next president !!!

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    5. No fewer than 66 persons have been killed by unknown gunmen in Kajuru local government of Kaduna state. This attack comes less than twenty four hours to the conduct of the presidential and parliamentary elections in the state.

      Media aide of the Kaduna state Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, Samuel Aruwan, in a statement released on Friday evening, said already, security agencies are on the trail of the assailants.

      The statement added that among the victims were 22 children and 12 women.Buhari MUST GO !!!! Elrufai MUST GO !!!!! We are tired of burying innocent children in Nigeria !!!!! If this was how innocent children where being killed when buhari was born, I am very certain he won't be president today clueless, incompetent moron!!!!!!

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  2. I ain't reading all of that.
    Baba you need rest.

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    1. I didn't even bothered reading it, I am not insane to do that.

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    2. Yeah, you didn’t even BOTHER reading it. Not BOTHERED. Why read when you won’t understand it!? This is an evidence of PDP’s 16 years of misrule. Our education system was so bad that our graduates don’t even know basic English grammar. The guy above is one of the victims of this misrule. Stella, i greet you o. I hope you are well.

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    3. You people are still blaming PDP even after 4 years, does that not show a glaring lack of competence?

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    4. Who wants to read what a mad man has to say ?????

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  3. This man good.This man mean well.He is a realist that believe in the right process amd not just fast and now.on the other hand,he is stubborn,always wana do what he believes in.buy in all,he is the leader for the present day nigerian mentality.#truth.
    I prefer him to atiku.baba if you win,bring in fela,sowore,and kingsley please.God bless nigeria.

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    1. You obviously don't live in Nigeria.
      Buhari needs to go back to his village!!!

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    2. Take a look at 90% of Buhari's appointments, ALWAYS Northerners. There is no way he will bring Fela or Sowore on board because he is a close minded bigot. Simple.

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    3. Anon 9:44 I believe your post is as dull and confused as you !!!! How won't you support the incompetent terrorist that supervised the murder of Innocent children and women in Nigeria !!!!!! A Psychopath supporting a terrorist !!!!

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  4. Story for the gods. If you believe that Buhari who ran away from Presidential Debate wrote this, you can believe anything. @Blessed Princess

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    1. The same man that couldn't read his own writing on a national television. They think we are dullard like them.

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    2. But he read the one that was broadcasted last night? Who is the dullard here? The graduate with English language deficiency of primary school students or the one who rose to become two times head of a country?

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    3. Does he read ????? Does he care ???? The unintelligent president can NOT even comprehend this write up purportedly written by him !!! Useless lifeless president !!!

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  5. This guy may win o, cos the amount of unclaimed PVCs I saw. Hmmmmm . hmmmmmm. Many internet warrior's don't have PVC, many that have r not going to vote. Smh

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    1. Correct Zeus.

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    2. Its is only Yaba Left residents that will for man that single handedly blessed Nigerians with hunger, unemployment, killings, dead economy etc !!!!

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  6. It was a form of campaign and people didn't fall for the lies. Most people who talked after the broadcast on one of the radio stations I listened really graded him very low!

    This is my own take; He should have come said all these in the debate set for him but he refused!

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    1. Buhari is finished !!! He must return to daura !!!!! NO room for a mediocre president in ASO ROCK !!!!! Vote ATIKU/OBI

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  7. If this man had fone well, Nigerians themselves would have praised him rather than looking for 50 point cooked up figures that don't match the reality of the poverty on ground.

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    1. His works would have spoken for him, unfortunately, his achievement is only read on pages of news papers !!! As we have seen any physically !!!!

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  8. Weather you guys like it or not Buhari is coming back. Let's watch and see.

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  9. Oh my goodness, they have come with their lies again as usual. We are still yet to see the so called change you promised in 2015. And in 2019, all we are hearing is next level. Next level when we are yet to see any change. Recession is well behind us yet, prices of goods keep increasing every second and some families can't even eat 3square meals a day. It's okay. Can't wait for tomorrow to come abeg. God please have mercy on my country Nigeria and let the poor man's prayer be answered come tomorrow.

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    1. Even Satan self dey fear lies from APC !!!!!

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  10. Sai Baba! Another four years is already loading...Rigged, Manipulated, Stolen, maneuvered or chanced. The Umbrella that is riddled with holes can't do jack shit..People should go and buy ropes and sit close to ceiling fans! Like it or hate it, Na you know, Buhari is ruling for another four years!

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    1. See foolishness on display, orisirisi. So politics has now become a thing for suicide?

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    2. Anon 11:14 your stupidity and foolishness can NOT be quantified !!!!!

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  11. Enter your comment...too busy to read shit. clear the road leading to daura please.

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  12. Most desperate people on earth buhari & apc

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  13. Objectively, Buhari meant well,bt his adminstration was hampered by circumstances beyond his control...

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