Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, thronged major streets in Enugu, the Coal City Capital, on Tuesday drumming support for the party’s Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, (rtd.)
The supporters, who came out in large numbers, marched round the Enugu metropolis chanting pro-Buhari songs.
The spokesperson of the APC in the South-East, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, while addressing journalists, stated that the people of the State and indeed the zone had total confidence on Buhari.
Giving insight into the rally, Okechukwu, who is also a member of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, said “for Enugu State in particular, General Muhammadu Buhari, (GMB) our dear presidential candidate pledges to revamp Enugu Coal, to utilize the Coal to generate electricity and create one million jobs in four years.
“GMB stands by this pledge he made on 10th January, 2015 on the occasion of Enugu State rally of our great party. His word is his bond.
“GMB is very passionate to create jobs for our youths and strongly feels that the best way to create jobs in this region is to revamp the Enugu Coal which has been abandoned since the civil war.
“His visit to Taichung Coal-Fired-Power-Plant, in Taiwan, the largest in the world motivated his interest to revamp the Enugu Coal”.
He added that apart the coal project, “GMB believes sincerely that no matter how vast our resources, if they are not efficiently utilized, they will only benefit a privileged few, leaving the majority in abject poverty. This he wants to avoid by all lawful means and that is why he had repeatedly said that ‘if Nigeria does not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria’.
“To achieve this, he publicly will declare his assets and liabilities and encourage his political appointees to follow suit immediately he is sworn-in.
“Secondly, he will work with the National Assembly to cut down the cost of governance; because he feels that the amount expended on running the presidency, the National Assembly, and the State Houses cannot be reasonably justified with the poverty on the ground.
“Thirdly, he will inaugurate the National Council on Procurement as stipulated in the Procurement Act, so that the Federal Executive Council, which has been turned to weekly session of Contract Bazaar, will concentrate on its core mandate of policy making”.
“My Dear Compatriots, GMB served our dear country meritoriously in the military to the highest level, as a Major General and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. He crushed the Maitasine insurgents, a violent rabid sect like Boko Haram and chased away Chadian Army.
“He will do so again, if you vote for him as president and Commander in Chief; and not the current president who just woke up from deep slumber after the election was postponed.
“In sum, GMB subscribes to the fine tenets of social justice, the rule of law and the welfare of the greatest number of our citizenry. This is the celestial bond he has with the Nigerian masses and the middle class”, he further stated.
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