2019: How Buhari’s re-election will benefit Nigerians – Waheed Seriki

The re-election of President Muhamadu Buhari for the second term in office in 2019 has been described as one that will rekindle the hope and aspiration of Nigerians for better future and continuation of country’s economic and infrastructural development.

President of Battles Against Corruption in Nigeria Group, a Canada-based coalition, Mr. Waheed Seriki, stated this in a message felicitating with fellow Nigerians on the occasion of the nation’s democracy day celebrations on Tuesday.

Seriki, who said in an exclusive message to The DEFENDER from his Canadian base of Ontario, said the second term of Buhari will enable him to focus more on his crusade battling against corruption in Nigeria and completion of most of the ongoing infrastructural projects across the country.

The message said, “The present administration under Muhamadu Buhari has channeled country’s resources towards the diversification of the country’s economy which, hitherto, depends largely on oil production, toward agricultural and industrial growth.

“Nigeria has moved away from rice and tomato importing country to production nation. The nation’s foreign reserve is growing every day.  The unemployment and inflation rate gradually reducing and there is massive infrastructure projects going on all over the country.

“Despite the strong opposition against the present administration, due to Buhari’s determination to fight corruption in Nigeria, the President refused to surrender to the powers behind the corruption.  He was constantly confronting and exposing those responsible for the looting of the nation’s resources and making life unbearable for the masses.

“Buhari’s effort to fight corruption has given Nigeria a new face both within and outside the country. The nation is gradually moving out of stigmatization as one of the most corrupt country in the world. The international community is now beginning to see Nigeria as a nation where they can establish industry, invest and transact business without fear of being duped.

“President Muhamadu Buhari has made a lot of enemy, most especially among the powers behind corruption because of his determination to use the power given to him by the electorate to champion the course of the masses and fight corruption.

“The enemy of progress are determined to ensure Buhari does not win the second term election in 2019 and they are ready to use their ill-gotten wealth to bring Nigeria back to 16 years of PDP rule that almost collapsed the nation, if not that Buhari won the 2015 election,” he said.

He concluded by calling on Nigerians to rise to the challenge ahead and use their votes against all the opposition of APC and President Buhari’s re-election in 2019, being the best thing he says they can do “to prevent either ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo’s indirect rule of the country again or PDP to draw the country back to the first 16 years of our disastrous democracy in which Nigerians lived like living dead.”