As the campaign season for the 2019 elections officially kicks off
today, President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) has
released its roadmap. The roadmap themed Next Level is geared toward
seeking re-election across all thirty-six state of the federation and
the Federal Capital Territory. See below full text of the APC Roadmap
below:Four years ago, we promised Nigerians real change – in what we do
and how we do it. Nigerians sent a clear message in the last election,
and our platform offered a new, ambitious plan for a secure, prosperous
and corruption-free country. We have worked hard to fulfil our promises –
and while the road may have been difficult, over the last three and a
half years, we have laid the foundations for a strong, stable and
prosperous country for the majority of our people.Foundational work is
not often visible, neither is it glamorous – but it is vital to
achieving the kind of country we desire. Judging by the prior depth of
decay, deterioration and disrepair that Nigeria had sunken into, we are
certain that these past few years have put us in good stead to trudge on
the Next Level of building an even stronger nation for our
people. First things had to come first. We were a nation at war – but we
delivered on our commitment to secure the territorial integrity of our
nation in the face of a raging insurgency that devastated many parts of
the North East. We liberated 17 Local Government Areas from the grip of
insurgency. Brokering and sustaining peace in the Niger Delta has also
been crucial to stabilising the polity. Despite the difficult
circumstances presented by weak oil prices and reduced oil production,
we delivered on our commitment to make public investments to spur
economic growth, job creation, and broad-based prosperity.Agriculture
continues to expand our economic base, as do our investments in
deficient infrastructure across the length and breadth of this nation.
We implemented a responsible and transparent fiscal plan for the
challenging economic times that saw us doing more even with lesser oil
revenues. Grand scale corruption perpetrated at the highest level of
government is now a thing of the past, just as the Treasury Single
Account (TSA) has made it more difficult for ministries, departments and
agencies to exercise the unrestrained liberties that helped foster a
climate conducive to corruption.The nation’s wealth is now being
invested in capital projects to expand infrastructure and connect
people, goods and opportunities by rail, road and air. Also, the Federal
Government supported state governments with bailouts that enabled them
to pay workers on their payroll. We took an unprecedented step towards
creating a fairer and more equitable society by implementing Africa’s
biggest social investment programme. Through the National Social
Investment Programme, we are providing direct support to over 13 million
Nigerians who need it by giving relief and assistance to unemployed
youth, our children, the weak and vulnerable as well as small and medium
businesses. But even as we lay the foundation for a stable and
prosperous nation, we acknowledge there is still much to do.The Next
Levelof effort focuses on job creation across various sectors. From an
enlargement of the N-Power programme to investing in technology and
creative sector jobs to agriculture and revolutionising access to credit
for entrepreneurs and artisans, there is scope for over 15 million new
jobs.The march away from a mono-economy must continue with our
industrialisation plan coming to fore. With specific plans underway to
exploit the comparative advantage of the geopolitical zones and
different states by developing 6 Industrial Parks and 109 Special
Production and Processing Centres (SPPCs) across each senatorial
district, our incremental move away from oil dependence is assured.In
addition, our development of the Special Economic Zones will quickly
concretise our Made in Nigeria for Export (MINE) plan. To sustain food
production and value addition, our mechanisation policy for agriculture
will make tractors and processors easily accessible and available for
farmers across Nigeria. We will continue a wide scale training policy,
prioritising technology to reach the demography of young people within
the productive sector on a massive scale even as we create jobs and
growth within our economy. We believe that our people who are still in
poverty have a direct way out and up through our expanded National
Social Investment Programme. We believe we can implement the painstaking
and comprehensive policy and work we have done to bring an end to the
perennial conflict between farmers and herders – a conflict which is
heightened by a struggle for land, water and pasture and the effects of
climate change and every now and then, opportunistic and cynical
manipulation by political actors. We are implementing a blend of
measures that ensures that justice, order, modernisation and new
economic paradigms emerge. Perhaps our biggest ambition yet is the
overhaul of our education sector. Every child counts – and simply,
whatever it takes to prepare our teachers, curriculum and classrooms to
attain the right educational goals that grow our country, will be done.
We will remodel 10,000 schools every year and retrain our teachers to
impart science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics using
coding, animation, robotics to re-interpret our curriculum.We know that
to succeed, moral integrity and conscience must continue to form the
dominant character of our nation and its leadership. Corruption is an
existential threat to Nigeria. Despite the gains we have made in closing
the gates, we know that there is still much ground to cover to stop
systemic corruption. We are committed to deepening the work we started
this first term such that the nation’s assets and resources continue to
be organised and utilised to do good for the common man.The next four
years will be quite significant for our country. Nigeria is faced with a
choice to keep building a new Nigeria- making a break from its tainted
past which favoured an opportunistic few. Our choices will shape us –
our economic security and our future prosperity. Nigeria, more than ever
before, needs a stable and people-focused government to move the agenda
for our country forward. Join us on this journey to the Next Level of a
prosperous, strong and stable Nigeria! Nigerians, we are all going
higher!The post Three months to 2019 presidential election; President Buhari unveils APC's Next Level planThree months to 2019 presidential election; President Buhari unveils APC's ˜Next Level plan
As the campaign season for the 2019 elections officially kicks off
today, President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) has
released its roadmap. The roadmap themed Next Level is geared toward
seeking re-election across all thirty-six state of the federation and
the Federal Capital Territory. See below full text of the APC Roadmap
below:Four years ago, we promised Nigerians real change – in what we do
and how we do it. Nigerians sent a clear message in the last election,
and our platform offered a new, ambitious plan for a secure, prosperous
and corruption-free country. We have worked hard to fulfil our promises –
and while the road may have been difficult, over the last three and a
half years, we have laid the foundations for a strong, stable and
prosperous country for the majority of our people.Foundational work is
not often visible, neither is it glamorous – but it is vital to
achieving the kind of country we desire. Judging by the prior depth of
decay, deterioration and disrepair that Nigeria had sunken into, we are
certain that these past few years have put us in good stead to trudge on
the Next Level of building an even stronger nation for our
people. First things had to come first. We were a nation at war – but we
delivered on our commitment to secure the territorial integrity of our
nation in the face of a raging insurgency that devastated many parts of
the North East. We liberated 17 Local Government Areas from the grip of
insurgency. Brokering and sustaining peace in the Niger Delta has also
been crucial to stabilising the polity. Despite the difficult
circumstances presented by weak oil prices and reduced oil production,
we delivered on our commitment to make public investments to spur
economic growth, job creation, and broad-based prosperity.Agriculture
continues to expand our economic base, as do our investments in
deficient infrastructure across the length and breadth of this nation.
We implemented a responsible and transparent fiscal plan for the
challenging economic times that saw us doing more even with lesser oil
revenues. Grand scale corruption perpetrated at the highest level of
government is now a thing of the past, just as the Treasury Single
Account (TSA) has made it more difficult for ministries, departments and
agencies to exercise the unrestrained liberties that helped foster a
climate conducive to corruption.The nation’s wealth is now being
invested in capital projects to expand infrastructure and connect
people, goods and opportunities by rail, road and air. Also, the Federal
Government supported state governments with bailouts that enabled them
to pay workers on their payroll. We took an unprecedented step towards
creating a fairer and more equitable society by implementing Africa’s
biggest social investment programme. Through the National Social
Investment Programme, we are providing direct support to over 13 million
Nigerians who need it by giving relief and assistance to unemployed
youth, our children, the weak and vulnerable as well as small and medium
businesses. But even as we lay the foundation for a stable and
prosperous nation, we acknowledge there is still much to do.The Next
Levelof effort focuses on job creation across various sectors. From an
enlargement of the N-Power programme to investing in technology and
creative sector jobs to agriculture and revolutionising access to credit
for entrepreneurs and artisans, there is scope for over 15 million new
jobs.The march away from a mono-economy must continue with our
industrialisation plan coming to fore. With specific plans underway to
exploit the comparative advantage of the geopolitical zones and
different states by developing 6 Industrial Parks and 109 Special
Production and Processing Centres (SPPCs) across each senatorial
district, our incremental move away from oil dependence is assured.In
addition, our development of the Special Economic Zones will quickly
concretise our Made in Nigeria for Export (MINE) plan. To sustain food
production and value addition, our mechanisation policy for agriculture
will make tractors and processors easily accessible and available for
farmers across Nigeria. We will continue a wide scale training policy,
prioritising technology to reach the demography of young people within
the productive sector on a massive scale even as we create jobs and
growth within our economy. We believe that our people who are still in
poverty have a direct way out and up through our expanded National
Social Investment Programme. We believe we can implement the painstaking
and comprehensive policy and work we have done to bring an end to the
perennial conflict between farmers and herders – a conflict which is
heightened by a struggle for land, water and pasture and the effects of
climate change and every now and then, opportunistic and cynical
manipulation by political actors. We are implementing a blend of
measures that ensures that justice, order, modernisation and new
economic paradigms emerge. Perhaps our biggest ambition yet is the
overhaul of our education sector. Every child counts – and simply,
whatever it takes to prepare our teachers, curriculum and classrooms to
attain the right educational goals that grow our country, will be done.
We will remodel 10,000 schools every year and retrain our teachers to
impart science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics using
coding, animation, robotics to re-interpret our curriculum.We know that
to succeed, moral integrity and conscience must continue to form the
dominant character of our nation and its leadership. Corruption is an
existential threat to Nigeria. Despite the gains we have made in closing
the gates, we know that there is still much ground to cover to stop
systemic corruption. We are committed to deepening the work we started
this first term such that the nation’s assets and resources continue to
be organised and utilised to do good for the common man.The next four
years will be quite significant for our country. Nigeria is faced with a
choice to keep building a new Nigeria- making a break from its tainted
past which favoured an opportunistic few. Our choices will shape us –
our economic security and our future prosperity. Nigeria, more than ever
before, needs a stable and people-focused government to move the agenda
for our country forward. Join us on this journey to the Next Level of a
prosperous, strong and stable Nigeria! Nigerians, we are all going
higher!The post Three months to 2019 presidential election; President Buhari unveils APC's Next Level plan
