The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that President Buhari's massive achievements, while he was in office and not security challenges, will define his legacy after office.
Mohammed said
this today June 1 at a press conference on the mid-term anniversary of
President Buhari’s second tenure. According to him, more attention has been
given to insecurity, however, the challenge will not overshadow the successes
of the Nigerian leader.
''Let me
repeat what I have said many times in the past: Never in the history of our
country has any Administration done so much with so little.
It’s easy to
forget now, but when this Administration came into office in 2015, the price of
crude oil, which provides 80 per cent of Nigeria’s budgetary revenues and 95
per cent of foreign exchange earnings, dropped drastically and, along with it,
the fund available to the government. It is therefore monumental that this
Administration has achieved so much despite the paucity of fund.
I want to
state emphatically that while more attention has been given, especially in
recent times, to the security challenges facing our country, those challenges
are fleeting and will not define the legacy of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Let me say
that President Buhari’s legacy is assured, and will be defined by his massive
achievements in office. The roads, rails, bridges, mass housing, port
development, improvement in power supply and other massive infrastructural
development will last for generations to come and will help propel economic
growth and national development.''
Lai Mohammed
went on to list some of the achievements of President Buhari since assuming
office in 2015. He mentioned them as
*Lagos-Ibadan
Expressway
*Apapa-Oworonsoki
Expressway
*Enugu-Port
Harcourt dualization
*
Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja dualization
*
Abuja-Kaduna- Zaria Expressway
*
Kano-Maiduguri Expressway dualization
*
Suleja-Minna highway
* Milliken
Hill Ngwo & Bonny-Bodo-Road
* Second
Niger Bridge
* Loko-Oweto
Bridge
* Zungeru
Hydroelectric Dam
* Goronyo Dam
* Airport
upgrades in Abuja, Lagos and Enugu
* Agriculture
(rice and chicken farming, among others)
* Apapa
Standard Gauge Line
* Ebute
Metta-Ibadan Standard Gauge Line
*
Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Aladja Standard Gauge Line
*
Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano Natural Gas Pipeline
* Onitsha and
Lekki Deep Water Ports
* The fight
against Covid-19
* Digital
Switch Over in Broadcasting
* The
1,000-village Star Times Project
* FHA Hoisng
Projects in Ajoda New Town (Oyo State)/FHA Kwali Mass Housing Project
*
NSIA-Umuahia Diagnostic Centre
* NSIA-Aminu
Kano teaching Hospital
* NSIA-LUTH
Cancer Centre
* Acquisition
and upgrade of military platforms
The Minister
added that while work has been completed on many of the projects, work is still
ongoing on others.
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