Nigeria goes to the polls on March 28 to choose a new flag bearer in what is looking like a tight deadbeat race between General Buhari and incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. Issues like Corruption, lack of accountability by government officials, Petrol scarcity, insecurity, unemployment, power shortages and an over-dependence on crude oils have been the key issues to tackle in the country that is ironically the largest economy in Africa.
General Muhammadu Buhari , the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate has promised to build four new petroleum refineries in Nigeria if elected president during the forthcoming elections taking place later this month.
General Buhari said: “I have said that the APC as a party has identified three fundamental problems in this country. You cannot repeat them so often because everybody talks about them.
“They are insecurity, the destruction of the economy and corruption, which has become a vicious cycle. The state of insecurity, as we said when the election was extended by six weeks, is that if the Nigerian government and the military could me not tame Boko Haram for five years, what will they do in six weeks.”
General Buhari noted that the missing Chibok girls are really a great embarrassment to this country as since independence no such incidence has ever taken place. Accusing the government of doing nothing about their plight, General Buhari said the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had failed the country through what he termed misrule.
“We challenge the PDP, let them account for their stay in power for 16 years of rulership, in terms of the fundamental objectives we have been talking about in the three most important aspects, security, economy and corruption. We have been very consistent about these issues but people who are sitting on the periphery have kept on making noise and wasting our time.
“Let them come and defend themselves in what they have done in the last 16 years, with the incredible resources they made within this period. The incredible resources this country realised within this period is much more than what the country made since the amalgamation in 1914,” General Buhari added.
