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  • Nigeria’s economic outlook rising, says Akinsiju

    Nigeria’s economic outlook rising, says Akinsiju

    • ‘No govt compares to Tinubu’s  achievements since 1999’

    An independent audit of global and domestic institutional ratings and quantification of Nigeria’s ongoing economic reforms indicated that the country is being increasingly recognised as a rising economic force, Independent Media and Policy Initiatives (IMPI) Chairman, Dr Niyi Akinsiju said yesterday..

    He said the audit corroborated the reports of both local and global institutions which rated the economy high as a result of the reforms being implemented by the administration of President Bola Tinubu.

    Akinsiju spoke at a news conference  in Abuja.

    He said that the economic performance of the Tinubu administration in the last two years surpassed that of previous administrations since 1999.

    Akinsiju highlighted the foreign exchange dynamics, saying the immediate reflection of the positive move inherent in the unification of the foreign exchange windows is the increase in revenue for states and local governments and a reduction in public debt.

    “Coming on the back of this, we can say with much confidence that, indeed, there had been no comparable first two years in office as that of President Tinubu since the nation returned to democracy in 1999,” Akinsiju stated.

    He said the Federal Government’s revenue rose by 82.4 per cent from N6.8trillion in 2023 to N12.4trillion last year, driven by the unification of the foreign exchange rates, enhanced tax administration, and reforms in treasury remittances, according to data sourced from the World Bank.

    Akinsiju said the development represented a N5.6trillion increase in federally collected revenue and a significant rise in the government’s revenue-to-GDP ratio from 8.0 per cent in 2023 to 13.5 per cent in 2024, a considerable fiscal milestone going by the nation’s historical revenue generation constraints.

    According to him, as part of its strong showing on foreign exchange reforms, Nigeria has completed the repayment of the principal amount of its $3.4billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the final payment made on April 30.

    “As a result, the economy is signaling its transformation to a credit worthy jurisdiction. To lend credence to this, between June 2023 and December 2024, at least 33  states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) reduced their domestic debt by a total of N1.85 trillion out of a total debt of N5 trillion. This indicates a commitment to fiscal responsibility and a move towards greater financial stability,” he told reporters.

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    He added: “However, tangential to this growing positive global and domestic perceptions among communities of investors, we have also observed a strain of incredulity in some quarters of the national political class and the media that continue to believe the profound management of the national economy by the federal administration of President Tinubu.

    “These elements have trenchantly reduced the nation’s economic trajectory to a characterisation of high cost of living, bereft of the ongoing profound manoeuvres to restructure the national economy away from the misalignments and distortions of the past.

    “After coming to office on 29 May 2023, President Tinubu embarked on a deep economic reform programme, which global, and domestic institutions including individuals of responsible and objective standing have all conceded to be necessary to right the distortions that hitherto hallmarked the public finances of Africa’s most populous country.

    “Of course, those measures have come at a cost to many ordinary Nigerians, who are facing a cost-of-living reality on the heels of the implementation of what is now known as the twin policies of petroleum subsidy removal and the harmonisation of the foreign exchange’s multiple windows. We wish, however, to assert that this does not define the multidimensional impact of the federal administration’s reforms of the last two years,’’, Akinsiju added.

  • IMPI chair, Akinsiju bags Doctorate

    IMPI chair, Akinsiju bags Doctorate

    The Chairman of the Independent Media and Policy Initiative, (IMPI) Niyi Akinsiju has been conferred with the Doctor of Philosophy, PhD academic award by the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

    This was disclosed in a statement signed by the Vice Chairman of the policy think-tank, Mallam Danjuma Mohammad.

    The statement reads: “The IMPI notes that Chief Akinsiju was conferred with a Doctorate Degree in Development Communication after about five years of rigorous coursework, examination, and a tedious defense of his thesis by a team of the University’s internal examiners and external examiner.

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    “Since IMPI’s formation, its chairman Chief Akinsiju has displayed a studious desire to excel in academics, even as he continuously led the charge in critically evaluating national policies and programmes.

    “On his watch, IMPI has issued 16 policy advisories on sundry national issues that have added fresh perspectives to public discourse.

    “We pray that God Almighty will continue to grant him the strength and wisdom to lead IMPI to greatness.”

  • Fuel subsidy ‘strangulated’ Nigeria’s economic growth – Akinsiju

    Fuel subsidy ‘strangulated’ Nigeria’s economic growth – Akinsiju

    …says Gowon, Obasanjo’s administrations laid foundations for petrol subsidy

    The Chairman of the Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI), Niyi Akinsiju, has appealed to Nigerians to allow international market forces to determine the price of petrol.

    Akinsiju noted that fuel subsidies became Nigeria’s equivalent of an economic weapon of mass destruction before its removal by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.

    According to him, subsidies strangulated Nigeria’s potential and burned up $30 billion that could have been funnelled into other uses, such as infrastructure, health, and education.

    Akinsiju, who spoke at a news briefing in Abuja, said: “Nonetheless, this does not detract from the fact that fuel subsidies have become Nigeria’s equivalent of an economic weapon of mass destruction. The narration often shows how subsidies have strangulated the Nigerian nation’s potential and burned up $30 billion that can be funnelled into other uses, such as infrastructure, health, and education.

    “In 2022, $10 billion was spent on fuel subsidies, representing 40 percent of the country’s revenue. The petrol supply scenario is exacerbated by the annual $28 billion taken from the critical foreign reserve to import fuel.

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    “This is in addition to the N1 trillion the country had to borrow to finance fuel subsidies in 2022. A further examination of the subsidy regime shows that households in the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution account for less than three percent of fuel purchases at the pump.”

    He said former Military Heads of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon and Gen Olusegun Obasanjo (rtd) allegedly institutionalized a petrol subsidy regime at a time when the Nigerian economy was very vibrant.

    According to him, these former military heads of state introduced subsidy as a short-term measure to cushion the rising international oil price.

    He said: “General Olusegun Obasanjo, then Military Head of State, formalised the petroleum subsidy regime into law when he numbered it among products for which the government would be responsible for fixing their prices and for which they should not be sold above the fixed prices.

    “This was a short-term measure to cushion the rising international oil price. It was intended as a temporary fiscal response to an oil price spike instigated by the actions of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

    “It is, however, instructive to note that under the two principal protagonists of subsidy, the price of petrol recorded increments in response to emerging economic realities. Under Gowon, the price increased by 40 percent from six kobo a litre to nine kobo a litre, while under Obasanjo, it skyrocketed by 70 per cent from nine kobo a litre to 15.3 kobo a litre.”

  • INEC’s silence on PDP access to server worrisome, says BMO

    The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has expressed concerns over the long silence of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to claims of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of having access to its backend servers.

    BMO said the long silence was worrisome and frightening.

    Chairman and secretary of the group, Niyi Akinsiju and Cassidy Madueke respectively said in a statement the claim by the PDP that it had gained illegal access to the servers of INEC through the assistance of some INEC officials was too grave a criminal confession for the electoral Commission to keep mum.

    The pro Buhari group said: “This is most frightening. That INEC is not alarmed or bothered by such blatant claim by the PDP to have procured the hacking of its systems – whether it is false or not- is most worrisome. We would have expected INEC to swing into clearing the air immediately and distancing itself from such a criminal conduct. But INEC has kept a deafening silence.

    “INEC’s silence on this confession of criminality against it is not golden. It is suspicious and carries a weight of taint that must be called out.

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    “It can be likened to a scenario where a thief says he has robbed a bank and the bank remains silent on the confession of robbery against it, whether its safes and moneys are intact or not. Silence is very weighty in any such instance”.

    BMO said that it knew that the claim by the PDP that it was in possession of results fraudulently fetched from the INEC servers was “a hoax and only an exhibition of the innate fraudulent character of the PDP.

    “For instance, according to the group, the so-called results did not tally with reality, with fundamental errors such as the absence of votes of other political parties that participated during the election. Still, we believe that INEC ought not to be silent in the face of such wild allegations.

    “The very character of the PDP is one of fraud, dishonesty and malfeasance; it is not out of its character to have made moves to procure the hacking into the INEC servers by some of the Commission’s staff.

    “Its Freudian slip of this admission of the stupid attempt, however unsuccessful, must be dealt with and addressed with all sense of seriousness. This, INEC has failed to do.”

    The group said that the recent claim by the PDP to have colluded with INEC staff to have access to INEC’s back-end servers raises serious posers as to an unholy romance between INEC and the PDP.

  • Atiku’s suit lacks merit, bound to fail- BMO

    The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) says Abubakar Atiku’s suit challenging the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari would fail because it lacks merit.

    The group said this in a statement signed by its chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke on Monday in Abuja, adding that the suit is a waste of time.

    The group said that Atiku knew that he had no chance of victory even before the elections and is only attempting this suit to hoodwink Nigerians and ultimately waste the time of the country’s judiciary.

    “Atiku Abubakar has yet to wake up from his hallucination that he can steal a chance to defeat Buhari in an election.

    “If the Presidential elections were to hold ten times, Atiku will lose ten times to Buhari.

    “Atiku knew it, even before the elections were held, that he never stood a chance at beating Buhari at the poll,’’ the group said.

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    BMO noted that Atiku’s loss at the 2019 Presidential Poll was evidence of Nigerians rejecting the former Vice President.

    The group said that the majority of Nigerians have rejected Atiku and he must come to terms with that.

    The group also said it is not against Atiku exercising his constitutional right to seek justice in a court of law.

    It therefore insisted that Nigerians are aware that his claim to seeking a mandate in the court is only a pipe-dream as the entirety of his observations lack merit, false and only a waste of time.

    The group noted that what the courts would eventually do would be to stamp the authority of victory on Buhari at the end of the day.

    The group reiterated that Atiku’s loss started at his polling unit where Buhari beat him.

    “The signs were very clear before the elections, during the elections, and with the eventual victory of Buhari been the popular appeal across the country.

    “Atiku’s rejection by Nigerians started with his own household,’’ he said.(NAN)

  • Don’t be intimidated by PDP blackmail, pro Buhari group tells Army

    The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has asked the Nigerian Army not to give in to blackmail by the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) but ensure adequate security through the country during this weekend’s governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections.

    The group said inspite of the subtle blackmail by the PDP, the military and other security agencies should not back down in their resolve to with potential election riggers and their sponsors during Saturday’s governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections across the country.

    In a statement signed by Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke, the BMO expressed support for the strong resolve of the Army authorities to be tough on political thugs and armed militias during Saturday’s gubernatorial and states’ Houses of Assembly elections.

    The group said “We are aware of the subterfuge of opposition elements that even before the elections were bent on tarnishing the image of every national institution that has any role to play in the electoral process, no matter how remote.

    “After months of muck-raking and pot-shots at the Police and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the run up to the elections, PDP leaders have now shifted attention to the military over perceived bias.

    “But this is the same Army that was not reported to have encroached on polling centres during the Presidential election and was highly praised by international election observers.

    “And now that it has vowed to be tougher on potential trouble makers, we join millions of Nigerians to express support for the Army in its determination to stem the tide of violence witnessed in some states on February 23″.

    They also commend plans by the Air Force authorities to provide air cover for security operations on Election Day, adding that this was necessary in view of revelations by of the Army of plans by some politicians to unleash armed militia men as well as use the farmers-herders crisis to disrupt elections in some parts of the country.

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    BMO said: “Nigerians cannot afford to ignore an intelligence report publicly announced by the Chief of Army staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, so it is gratifying that his counterpart in the Air Force, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar has put some air assets on standby for deployment in flash point states.

    “We also hope that there would be strong inter-security cooperation between patrolling members of the armed forces and the Police which is backed by law to be at polling centres especially in states prone to electoral violence”.

    The group urged Nigerians to continue to support the Buhari administration as it continues its people oriented programmes towards taking Nigeria and Nigerians to the Next Level.

    The group expressed joy that Nigerians recognised the numerous achievements of the Buhari administration, hence the massive support they gave him at the presidential election, adding that the administration’s achievements in the three core areas of fight against corruption, revival of the economy and provision of security across the country have endeared the President to the Nigerian people, said BMO.

    “As a group we are witnesses to the various efforts the Buhari administration has been making towards restoring Nigeria to the path of economic growth, infrastructural development and food security.

    “We are also gratified to note that presently Nigeria has emerged as a major rice producer globally based on the deliberate agricultural policies embarked upon by the administration since coming to power on May 29th 2015. This approach has also guaranteed food security for Nigerians as well as reduced poverty in the country.

    “We implore the president not to be distracted by the antics of the opposition, but to remain focused at delivering on his campaign promises to all Nigerians.”

  • ‘Those endorsing Atiku are political jobbers’

    The Buhari Media Organization (BMO) has dismissed the Sunday’s endorsement of the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar by a group of regional blocks, describing it as a gathering of ‘shameless exponents of political adventurism.’

    The group said those endorsing the former Vice President are political jobbers, freelance activist and free-wheeling influence peddlers.

    It added it not surprising members of the socio-cultural groups the individuals claimed to be representing have already disowned the purported endorsement.”

    In a statement by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, the group said: “These are men who in spite of their advanced age are known to be political middlemen who have been out of job in the last three and a half years of the President Buhari administration.

    “That virtually all of them have been disowned by the core membership of the socio-cultural group they are supposed to be representing say a lot about their credibility.

    “One of them Pogo Bitrus, who claimed to be the President of the Middle Belt Forum is from Borno State but is presenting himself as the leader of the umbrella body of the people of North Central Nigeria, as the name suggests.

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    “It is even on record that Bitrus was the leader of the Chibok community in Abuja but was removed because of his romance with the Jonathan administration at the height of the clamour for the return of the abducted Chibok girls in 2014.

    “As for the Afenifere, it is clear that the duo of Pa Ayo Adebanjo and Yinka Odumakin are using the name as influence-vending franchise on behalf of a group of people they have no mandate to represent”.

    BMO stated the arrowheads of the endorsement are PDP members and sympathisers who were also in the forefront of support for the failed re-election bid of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

    “This purported endorsement, which Atiku Abubakar is already celebrating, is nothing more than a case of party members backing their Presidential candidates by subterfuge, as is usual with the PDP.

    “Only recently we saw the PDP faction of Ohaneze led by John Nwodo endorse Atiku Abubakar, but few days later, the Anambra State Government and Ohaneze Youth Council led the deluge of dissenting voices which insisted that the people of South East should be allowed to vote in line with their conscience.

    “As for Ango Abdullahi, the leadership of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has questioned his right to speak for and on behalf of the Northern Region.

    “So these so-called Nigerian leaders and elders, led by a known PDP Chieftain, Edwin Clark that claimed they opted for their party’s Presidential candidate because he is ‘capable’, are clearly not representing anybody aside from themselves.

    “And just like in 2015, the fake endorsement is dead on arrival because the people who matter and who heartily received President Buhari at campaign rallies across the country are ready to make their votes count on February 16 by giving him a resounding victory”.

  • Atiku will be a disaster as President, says BMO

    The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) said on Saturday that emerging revelation from the PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar is a clear indication that he would a disaster if given the mandate to preside over the country.

    The Organisation said the self-confession by the Atiku that he took some unilateral decisions as Vice President and alao ensured that a sitting governor was not given a return ticket were clear acts of impunity, stressing that if he could do that as number two, he was bound to do worse when given the real mandate as number one.

    In a statement signed by the chairman, Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, the group also said the former Vice President carried out serious acts of impunity when, as Chairman of the National Council on Privatization, he presided over the under pricing of national assets, while giving his company a whopping 25 year’s concession of Nigerian ports.

    The ask Nigerian voters to take proper notice of unilateral actions and the serial acts of impunity by Atiku Abubakar when he was Vice President in the Obasanjo years.

    They claimed that the former Vice President even boasted about some of those acts on National Television during his appearance on ‘The Candidate’, a live TV show focusing on Presidential candidates in the run up to next month’s elections

    BMO said: “On more than two occasions during the programme, Atiku Abubakar made it clear that he took unilateral actions as Vice President that border on impunity and a disregard for all known democratic norms.

    “The first was his confession that he ‘borrowed’ the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) N300m at inception in 2004 from the proceeds of the privatisation exercise. What this means is that the funds were in his custody and not paid into the Consolidated Revenue Account as expected. And he did whatever he liked with it.

    “This is the same man who wrote the international community to complain about President Muhammadu Buhari who sought and secured approval of the National Economic Council to release $1bn from the Excess Crude Account for military hardware. We wonder which of these acts bear the mark of impunity!

    “The second one was the clearly undemocratic decision to deny a sitting governor a second term in office. By his own admission on the ‘The Candidate’, Atiku Abubakar and his principal were not aware that schools were shut in Anambra state for two years and the solution, in his view, was to tell the then President Olusegun Obasanjo that the state governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju ‘will never be allowed to go back’. He subsequently boasted publicly that he made sure that the governor never went back.

    “It is shocking that this comment came from an individual that wrote an open letter to the international community accusing President Buhari of constitutional breaches. What could be more dictatorial than determining the outcome of an election without giving the electorate the benefit of choosing who governs them?”

    They said further that the impunity with which Atiku carried out his duty as Vice President and chairman of the National Council of Privatisation was also obvious from the manner government owned enterprises were sold or concessioned under his watch.

    “it is no longer news that his company INTELS was granted a 25-year concession to run a number of Ports in an exercise he supervised in 2006.This is clearly one of the acts his former boss referred to when he said that the PDP Presidential Candidate committed unforgivable crimes against the Nigerian people.

    “There is also the mess that characterised the privatisation of the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCOM) Ikot Abasi which was built for $3.2b but sold for a pittance of $120m in 2006.That shoddy sale has since then sparked series of law suits till date”, the group said.

     

     

     

  • ‘Suspension of Onnoghen aimed at fast tracking fight against corruption’

    The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) said on Saturday that the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, signifies a conscious shift of policy to fast track the fight against corruption in the country.

    It said the suspended CJN had built a hedge around himself to continue in office in spite of his written admission of hiding several domiciliary accounts with suspicious lodgements of funds believed to be proceeds of corruption.

    In a statement signed by its Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke, BMO said that President Buhari had no alternative but to respect a valid suspension order issued by the Code of Conduct Tribunal pending final determination of the case against Justice Onnoghen.

    It said further that “Resignation was the only meaningful option for the suspended Chief Justice. He is indeed, a confessed felon after claiming in one breadth to have made a mistake and also forgot to have properly declared his assets in line with provisions of the Code of Conduct Bureau for public officials when confronted by investigators.

    “Just like the President said in his speech at the swearing in of the Acting CJN, someone with a moral authority so wounded by serious charges of corruption by his own written admission ought to have stepped down on his own volition.

    “But in the character of tainted high office holders in Nigeria, Justice Onnoghen preferred to lash on to the rigmarole of legal technicalities as well as a desperately shallow opposition party that is on the lookout for anything to use to cast aspersions on President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to shore up its flagging campaign and an apparent failed effort to market a presidential candidate with questionable moral standing.

    “The suspended CJN forgot, as usual, that he once ruled on a case in his capacity of a Supreme Court judge that the Code of Conduct Tribunal has the exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any violation of provisions of the Code of Conduct Bureau notwithstanding the status of the public officer in question.”

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    The group maintained that the CJN’s suspension was in line with the President’s vow to respect the rule of law as demonstrated in this case by the order issued by the Tribunal on January 23.

    It said: “President Buhari’s action cannot be said to be unilateral because it was based on the order of a duly constituted tribunal and it will pave way for the case against the suspended CJN to be heard on merit rather than a situation where it would be stalled by unnecessary judicial subterfuge which are associated with high profile cases in Nigeria.

    “We consider the indefinite postponement of the statutory meeting of the Nigerian Judicial Council NJC by Justice Onnoghen as one of those unbridled manipulation of the judicial process. The postponement of the NJC meeting is a brazen abuse of office by Justice Onnoghen to prevent the other members of the Council from intervening in the Asset Declaration scandal which may either lead to his being suspended or being asked to recuse himself while the other members take a second look at the implication of the grave corruption allegation hanging on the head of the country’s judiciary.

    “So, from whichever angle one looks at it, it would be difficult to fault the President’s action with all the facts at his disposal as well as the CCT suspension order”

    While asking Nigerians to rally around the President at this critical time and ignore attempts by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its Presidential candidate to obfuscate the issue with a view to scoring political points, it said “no one should be surprised that Atiku and his corruption-loving party would jump into the fray in a public show of defence of the suspended Chief Justice as it is in line with their tendencies to defend the worst forms of value erosion that continue to assail our national sensitivity in recent times. It tells you all you need to know about a Presidential candidate that has vowed to enrich his friends obviously through corrupt means if (God forbids) he becomes President

    “But there is no way President Buhari, with his disdain for corrupt acts, would pretend that all is well in a situation where the head of the nation’s judiciary would have undeclared sums of money running into millions of dollars in accounts hidden from public scrutiny.

    “We urge Nigerians across divides to show support and solidarity with the President in his bid to fast track the fight against corruption no matter whose ox is gored”.

  • BMO to Ezekwesili: You lack capacity to understand Nigerian politics

    The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has said that the sudden decision of former Minister of Education to pull out of the Presidential race barely 23 days to the election is a clear indication that she lacks the capacity to understand the dynamics of Nigerian politics.

    The group said the former Minister owe Nigerians serious explanation about her real intention of joining the presidential race when she knew she had to capacity and intention to see the election through.

    In a statement signed by Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, the group commended the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) on whose platform she was running for the Presidency for endorsing President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term in office.

    The group said: “We are not surprised that she has opted out of the race because it was clearly out of her depth as a pseudo-activist and opportunist without real political clout and pedigree.

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    “Just like her former party acknowledged, the short-lived stint she had as a presidential candidate showed that she had nothing substantial to offer or contribute to political discourse beyond on-line rants and thoughtless invectives

    “And because some of these invectives are often retweeted or liked by some of her 836,000 twitter followers, she began to delude herself as an alternative to a President that has a track record of integrity, consistency in patriotism, honesty and performance to prove his status as a true statesman and leader.

    “Her forays into the real world of politics on the streets even saw Nigerians chanting Sai Buhari during one of her rare campaign outings.

    “So it would be ideal for Ezekwesili to take a second look at the situation and throw her weight behind the President’s re-election bid rather than embarking on another hopeless exercise of building a coalition against President Buhari that so far failed woefully”.

    On ACPN’s decision to support President Buhari as its Presidential candidate, the group described it as a realisation of the values represented by the President and his efforts at putting the country firmly on the path to greatness.
    It added that the party leaders including Ezekwesili’s erstwhile running mate Ganiyu Galadima have, through their action, shown that there is still honour among members of the political class in our great country.

    BMO said it was particularly elated that Galadima who is also the party’s National Chairman said he and his colleagues are joining the President to take the country to the next level and assured them that they would not be disappointed.

    The pro-Buhari group also urged undecided Nigerians to take a cue from ACPN and reject plans by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stage a return to power at the centre and get another chance to create economic mess and social chaos among the people.