President Muhammadu Buhari says his
administration has no free money to give to
everybody but it will continue to provide
infrastructural facilities to all parts of the country
with the meager resources available.
The president stated this at the closing ceremony
of train the trainer workshop on voter education
organized by the All Progressives Congress
Directorate of Election Planning and Monitoring in
Abuja on Monday.
President Buhari pledged that the APC led
administration would continue to build more
roads, rail lines and provide more power for
speedy transformation of the country.
He, therefore, charged participants of the
workshop to convince ordinary voters on the need
to vote APC in the forthcoming elections
He said: “Please try and convince our ordinary
voters for the sacrifice they are making that as
far as this system is concerned we are all the
same because I have one vote each.
“Let them feel they are important enough as
Nigerian citizens. Therefore, we need their support
and cooperation, let them come and vote for us.
“We don’t have money to give everybody. We will
use the money for the provision of infrastructure
– we will try and do your roads, we will try and
do the rail and we will improve on power.
“I assure you that I go to bed and wake up
thinking about Nigerians and Nigeria.’’
President Buhari, who expressed optimism that
the APC would emerge victorious in the
forthcoming general elections, said the results of
the recent bye-elections conducted in Edo, Ondo,
Osun and Ekiti had further boosted his morale.
“The bye-elections in Kogi and Rivers were
disastrous under the former party leadership as
people were killed, properties lost and I as the
President was very uncomfortable and unhappy.
“But the elections in Edo and Ondo partially
resuscitated my morale because we won those
elections.
“And then of course, subsequently we have
virtually been winning all bye-elections – Ekiti
and Osun and so on.
“This is done not because merely we are in power
but because we decided to rebuild the party from
bottom upwards so that people that represent the
party and members of the party at each
constituency will know whom they would trust for
nomination as their representatives at local, state
and federal levels.
“These are not there by accident. We sat and
planned them at the hierarchy of the party and
I’m very pleased you are here representing all the
constituencies in the country.
“We have no other interest than to serve this
country and to serve our people,’’ he said
The president congratulated the participants for
being nominated by the party in their
constituencies to participate in the training
programme, so that they could go back to their
respective constituencies and train others.
In his remarks, the APC Director of Election
Planning and Monitoring, Babatunde Fashola,
narrated the achievements of the governing APC
in the over three years it has been in power.
He explained that the achievements of the party
in the period under review superseded that of the
16 years of People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Fashola, who is the minister of power, works and
housing, disclosed that beneficiaries of the
training programme were expected to train other
APC volunteers at their respective constituencies.
He expressed the hope that with the training of
the APC volunteers at all levels, the party was
poised to emerge with landslide victory at the
2019 elections.(NAN)
source: thenationonlineng.net/we-dont-have-money-to-dash-out-says-buhari/
