2019 Election: Buhari’s
2019 Election: Buhari’s people-oriented policy
programmes are his strength- Gwamna*
Ahead of the Feb. 16 presidential election on Saturday, A
chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gombe State,
Dr. Jamilu Isyaku Gwamna (Sardaunan Gombe) while expressing
optimism that President Muhammadu Buhari would emerge victorious in
the forthcoming election, says that the people-oriented programmes
of President Buhari are his strength.
Gwamna who gave this assurance while fielding questions from
newsmen in Gombe on Thursday said President Buhari had disappointed
only political critics who wanted him to fail.
He said that the present administration had addressed the yearnings
of the people and made the resources of the people available to the
people through diverse social interventions and investment
programmes that many critics had expected would not work.
He noted that those that hate President Buhari were doing so
because he had spent more on the Nigerian masses than any
administration since 1999 and by that, bought the trust of the
youths, women, children and the forgotten pensioners.
According to him, it will be difficult for any presidential
candidate to defeat President Buhari because the women and youths
who are the major beneficiaries of the dividends of democracy under
the present administration will resists any attempts to stop
Buhari’s re-election in favour of empty promises from those who
have been in governance but failed the people.
“I am very confident that President Buhari would carry the day come
Feb. 16 which is Saturday because his people policies are his
strength. The people who have benefitted from the political
goodwill of the President will not throw that away for empty
promises from those who had enriched their pockets with the
resources of the people.
“Those criticising Buhari are doing so not because the president
fail the people but because he failed them. Many defected to APC to
support Buhari in 2015 for what they can gain but when it became
clear that the President Buhari had taken sides with the people of
Nigeria, they jumped wagon to the other party while resulting to
criticising the president.
“If the 500, 000 N-power beneficiaries, the millions of women under
trader-moni scheme, all the forgotten pensioners whom Buhari
remembered in a miraculous-like manner and their families and many
others who have been enriched through agricultural policies of the
government vote for President Buhari, where will candidates of the
other parties get their votes to defeat Buhari?
“President Buhari has become a darling to many Nigerians and it is
clear from all the large crowds, he has been gathering across the
federation that the votes are for him,’’ he said.
The chieftain also said the acceptance of APC across Gombe State
showed that Alhaji Inuwa Yahaya is poised for total victory against
the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
He added that Inuwa’s fiscal discipline was necessary at a time
that the country is not as buoyant as it used to be during the
crude oil boom. He noted that the economy of Gombe was already bad
enough and should not be given to looters that would finally halt
any hopes of developing the state.
He charged the youths to resists money politics and come out early
to cast their votes for President Muhammadu Buhari and Alhaji Inuwa
Yahaya in Gombe State.