- A group of northcentral youths have declared their support for President Buhari’s re-election
- The group promised to mobilise over 10 million votes for the president
- Listing the president’s achievements, the youth group said it decided to make its position public to correct the misrepresentation of facts by the PDP
A northern youth group under the aegis of the North Central Youth Congress (NCYC) has vowed to support President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election 2019, promising to mobilise over 10 million votes for the president.
The youth group said President Buhari remained the best option for Nigeria in 2019 considering his laudable achievements across the nation.
The national president of the group, Comrade Unekwu Adejo Ochimana, in a statement, highlighted some of the monumental projects embarked on and completed by the current administration, Nigerian Tribune reports.
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The group added that youths of the Northcentral region pledge to massively support President Buhari’s re-election bid by working actively to realize it.
“Through consultations and persuasions, the NCYC has been able to mobilize 10 million votes in the region for the reelection of President Buhari in 2019, as a token of our appreciation for his unprecedented and massive infrastructural development of the northcentral Nigeria,” the group said.
The pro-Buhari youth group added that it decided to issue the statement to correct “misrepresentation of facts falsehood being peddled by members of the opposition, particularly, the PDP”.
It said that contrary claims by the PDP and its presidential candidate, President Buhari has not excluded any state in terms of infrastructural development.
“We state emphatically that none of the six states in the northcentral region has been excluded from patronage of capital projects or infrastructural development by President Buhari. There is attested massive infrastructural development in all parts of the region contrary to the fake claims of the opposition,” the group said.
It further highlighted some of the achievements of the president.
“A few examples would justify our position. We are grateful to President Buhari for the dualisation of the Lafia-Akwanga road in Nasarawa state, a project the PDP could not execute in 16 years, but claimed expending colossal sums of money. In the same state, President Buhari has completed the Inner Southern Expressway (ISEX), an expressway which provides easy access to the East-West movement to the southern flank of the city linking the Abuja-Keffi road.
“In Benue state, Mr President has completed the Loko- Oweto bridge, over River Benue which has been opened to vehicular traffic. The bridge provides easy link to Abuja from the southern axis of the state. The Federal Government has also rehabilitated 120 Poles Solar Street Lights on Katsina-Ala Bridge and the Street Lights on Makurdi Bridge in Makurdi.
“Similarly, in Kwara state, the masses are enjoying the rehabilitated Ilorin-Jebba-Mokwa-Birnin-Gwari-Kaduna road; road installation/rehabilitation of Street Lights on Ilorin-Ibadan Expressway at Geri Alimi and also, on Ogbomosho –Ilorin road and so forth.
“In Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, there are the Murtala Muhammad and Umar Musa Yar’Adua expressways; the circle road which rings into the Central Business District. President Buhari has also constructed the Nyanya-Gbagalape road and Abuja residents are savouring the pleasure of the Abuja rail Mass Transit system and the Abuja – Kaduna Standard Gauge railway.
“Also in the FCT, several roads/streets have been lighted with Street Lights such as the Giri interchange along Abuja – Lokoja Expressway; Kakao and , Old Toll Gate along Abuja – Kaduna road.
“In Niger state, the administration of President Buhari embarked on remediation of Lead contaminated sites in Shikira, Rafi LGA and the general maintenance works along Kontagora – Tegina road as well as the rehabilitation of 120 Poles Solar Street lights on Jebba Bridge.
“Kogi state has also benefitted from infrastructural attention such as patching of potholes, pavement strengthening, repairs of failed sections and general maintenance works along Okene – Ibillo road. And in Plateau state, government has patched potholes, strengthened pavements, and repaired failed sections on Gimi road.
“And generally, President Buhari has ensured all dilapidated federal roads traversing or inter-connecting states of the northcentral region have been rehabilitated.
“We are proud of President Buhari in many ways. States of the North Central region led the list of states in the country with huge salary indebtedness. But his bailout interventions assisted immensely in clearing these debts. The one or two states still owing backlog of salaries can be explained as the default of the various state governors.
“Nigeria is a large country, no doubt. But for President Buhari to have remembered to touch every part or state in the country has earned for himself the reputation of a focused and impartial leader. The North Central region never enjoyed such attention in massive infrastructural development for the 16 years, the region faithfully supported the PDP with votes at every election.”
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In a related development, Alhaji Bello Dantani, a lawmaker representing Argungu/Augie in Kebbi state at the House of Representatives, has said President Buhari deserves a second term following his numerous achievements in office.
Dantani made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Birni-Kebbi, on Friday, November 23.
The lawmaker, who earlier had a closed door meeting with Governor Atiku Bagudu, said the improved security situation in the state is one of the Buhari’s main achievements in office.
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