President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday told members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to be prepared for tough times ahead as the government will intensify the implementation of its three point agenda of fighting insecurity, corruption and fixing the economy.
Buhari gave the charge when members of the FEC paid him a congratulatory visit following his declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the winner of last Saturday’s presidential election at the presidential villa.
He explained: “My last lap of four years I think is going to be tough because people are very forgetful – that was why wherever I went I reminded them of the campaign by our party of the three fundamental issues – security because you have to secure a country or an institution to manage it properly.
“If you don’t secure it you can’t manage it no matter how much propaganda you put in place. Secondly the economy, the unemployed able bodies is the problem of this country as a whole – more than 60 per cent are youths – that meant 35 years and below – they need to be kept busy.
“I realised that and I think God heard our prayers that the two previous rainy seasons were good and we had the foresight to get the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Central Bank to try and give soft loans to farmers so that able bodies that have land can go back to land.’’
The President, who also spoke on his campaign tour, explained that the successful completion of the campaign tours nationwide had proven the opposition wrong that he was unfit to govern the nation.
Buhari pointed out that the campaign tours did not only prove that he was medically fit but also showed clearly that he was ready to continue in leading Nigeria for the next four years.
