Vice President
Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo has described as absurd, the lies, propaganda and
accusations against President Muhammadu Buhari. Osinbajo said on Wednesday
night while responding to questions at an Interactive Session and Engagement
held at Muson Centre, Lagos on Wednesday night.
The interactive session tagged: “Unveiling The Truth”,
organised by young Christian group, had some Christian leaders in attendance.
Participants used the occasion to ask plenty of questions
bothering on insecurity, economy, blaming of past administrations, social
welfare for the unemployed, corruption, and timing of TraderMoni. Other
questions bothered on Next Level slogan, farmer/herders crisis, lopsided
federal appointments, Islamisation, Buhari’s commitment to address critical
issues in the country among others. Responding, Osinbajo said that President Buhari
was committed to addressing the problems facing the country such as security,
economic and fixing critical infrastructure and fair treatment of all sections.
He said Buhari was addressing farmer/herders crises and had no intention at all
to Islamise the country. “President Muhammadu is possibly one of the most
committed people I have ever met. He is committed to seeing that resources of
this country are used for this country. “In general term, we find that there is
fairness in the distribution of appointments. Many of the accusations against
Buhari are not true. “Sometimes, people listen to propaganda and if we look at
the facts, things are totally different. On Islamisation, first of all, it is
untrue, it is propaganda. “Anybody who complains that President Buhari is
propagating islamic agenda, how is that possible? “A lot of these are just
propaganda, never listen to these. Many of these are absurd, they are
deliberate propaganda. They come from the same source. Don’t believe them.
Let’s be fair,” Osinbajo said. The vice president, who urged Nigerians not to
fear or doubt the good intention of the President, advised Nigerians to stop
spreading rumours about things that never happened. Osinbajo noted that the
major cause of farmer/herder crisis remained pasture and water which the
government had made concerted efforts to address. On the lopsided federal
appointments, Osinbajo said that the Southeast with five states
had five had five ministers more than some regions with higher number of
states. On TraderMoni, he said that the national assembly approved the money
for it and that it was meant to lift many Nigerians out of poverty. On the
timing of implementation, Osinbajo said that the government Social Investment
Programme kicked off after the budgetary allocation was passed by the National
Assembly. According to him, the party never promised N5,000 monthly stipends
for the unemployed but for the vulnerable which is ongoing. He said the
government had engaged so many youths in its N-Power programme and had to
increase the number to 1.5 million young Nigerian in the Next Level out of 1.7
million people churn out of tertiary institutions every year. On the standard
of tertiary education, Osinbajo said that the major issue affecting education
was not so much with the curriculum, advocating private sector thinking, ideas
to enhance public education. He added that the government would continue to
create enabling environment and provide funding. On criminality, the vice
president said that the way forward was local policing and intelligence
as well as immediate arrest and prosecution of criminals in the country. On
security, he said that the country had made significant progress and moved
forward from what the situation was before the 2015 general elections. The vice
president said that the APC Next Level slogan centred on job creation, power,
making credit more available to entrepreneurs, agriculture, infrastructure and
others. The vice president urged Christian leaders to jettison thinking about
any Islamic agenda and Islamisation, saying many Christians were in the cabinet
of President Buhari. He said that the media should desist from spreading
rumours, decrying fake news about Buhari being another person from Sudan.
Addressing the question accusation that the present administration often blamed
previous administration, Osinbajo said that the country could not move forward
without considering the past. According to him, corruption remains the bane of
national growth and development, saying that most of the woes confronting
people are caused by wastefulness of past governments. The highlight of the
interaction were high praise led by choir and power-packed prayer for the
country and general elections led by Bishop Wale Oke. The participants prayed
for God’s mercies on the country and God’s protection on the vice president
especially from the recent air crash. NAN
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