2023 Election: Buhari Vows To Fulfill All Promises lf Elected

2023 Election: Buhari Vows To Fulfill All Promises lf Elected

By Kabir Akintayo

Vice Presidential Candidate of the Social Democratic Party, (SDP) Yusuf Salisu Buhari, has promised that the party will fulfill all promises to revamp the economy and give Nigerians a new lease of life if elected in 2023.

Buhari, who made the commitment during an interview with journalists in Abuja Friday, said, “My Presidential Candidate is very tough when it comes to what he wants, he is very specific and he makes sure that the direction he gives is where you are heading. So, we have to ensure that everything that we say is what we do”

On his contribution to the revamping the dire economic situation of the country if elected, he said; “the statutory responsibility of the Vice President is to chair the economic management team that is made up of governors, heads of government agencies and it is pretty straight forward that it is going to be something that is supported by experts.

“Whoever comes there will be guided by a lot of supporting experts. It is a supervisory role. Whatever information we are going to gather about the economic activities of the country will be used to provide vital economic policies to enhance economic activities in the country.

“So, all the things that have to do with ease of doing business, multiple taxation issues and even the basic monetary policy supervisory role is not working very well and that is why you are able to see funds leaving the presidency to agencies at the end of some administrations and you find that funds are missing.

“You can see the gap, what has government been doing in terms of supervising between the release of funds and the time they do the review of the budget? The alarm goes off, you invite the person and he comes and start fainting and all of that. Their is a huge problem when it comes to supervision and that is one area we will have to look at.

“For me as an engineer it is more like a pipeline, you put resources here and you expect the services on the other end. Are the services you planned for not what you are getting? Then you know that their is a problem somewhere along the pipeline. Besides, everything you need to do is going to be guided by the vision of Mr President.”

Buhari promised to work with the Presidential Candidate of the SDP to eradicate some levels of poverty if elected in 2023.

He said; “You cannot make everybody a multi-billionaire, but like my Presidential Candidate has said, we can ensure we eradicate some levels of poverty in this country. We have the capacity to do that.

“We can eradicate poverty of hunger, housing and poverty of joblessness. We have the resources but these crop of leadership that we had since 1999 have continued to starve us because they are the same people that are conniving with international companies to steal, to loot our resources 80 percent of the time.

“A recent report came out and stated that we had about 41billion sales of crude oil and only 5 percent was what Nigeria got. That means that Nigeria got 12 percent that means that 88 percent of the proceed is gone and it is gone to the people that we have entrusted with our affairs.”

He urged Nigerians in 2023 to think critically of the people they will vote in power, promising to show exemplary leadership if elected.

He said “We have to look at their lifestyles, look at the lifestyles of their friends, and look at the lifestyles of their family. The children of the leaders are the ones flying all over the places, all the cars you see on the roads on tyres that cost over 200 million are owned by children of people in power and children of politicians.

“This is not leadership, this is wrong. We have to change our thinking. This type of behavior must stop with our presidency. If we have to impress we will impress with our service. This is what our culture across the country once respected, service to the people. What we are getting now is injustice.

“My prayer is that we will wake up to this responsibility and ensure that we are much more learned and informed when it comes to the politics of our land. More information with regards to people who are coming out to ask us of our votes because your votes is what will take them there”, he concluded.