President Muhammadu Buhari to the surprise of absolutely no one, was the APC nominee for the Presidency after winning the party’s Primaries.
He spoke about his achievements at the convention saying: “We are very proud of our record from 2015 to date,”
Buhari stated that change had come and went on to list his achievements in his 3+ years in office.
“We have arrested and checked the slide to anarchy on the security and economic front. Boko Haram is reduced to dastardly attacks on soft targets. Normalcy has returned to much of North East and neighbouring North West states.
“Our currency has stabilised, our reserves are now $44 dollars – a lot higher than we had in 2015. Power generation capacity has reached 8,000 megawatts against less than 4,600 megawatts when we came into office.
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“As we invest in new power generation infrastructure, we are strenuously working to address the legacy deficiencies and challenges of transmission and distribution networks across the country.”
“We are executing independent power projects in nine federal universities to deliver uninterrupted power supply and we intend to extend to a total of 37 universities.”
Buhari also stated that the agricultural side of the economy has come up in leaps and bounds
“We have revived most of our capacity to produce fertiliser locally. The government through its anchor borrowers programme and other incentives have empowered more than two million farmers to go back to the land,” President Buhari said.
“We now produce 80 percent of our rice requirement. Many farmers who nearly lost hope are now millionaires. We have introduced primary school feeding programmes to encourage attendance and enrolment. We also have introduced the conditional cash transfer to help small and medium businesses. The man, the woman and the younger people who drive and are driving our economy.”
Buhari also touched on his battle with corruption, stating that it had more or less been wiped out of the country
“We are attacking corruption head-on. With international support, we are recovering stolen Nigerian assets and applying them to infrastructural developments. Today, the corrupt are facing the wrath of law and leakages have been generally blocked.”