A foundation member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Osita Okechukwu has lauded ex-president Muhammadu Buhari for standing with the masses in all his policies.
This is coming at a time the World Bank is advising the Federal Government to increase the pump price of petrol to as much as N750/litre.
DAILY POST reported that the Labour Party, LP, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, have all warned the Nigerian Government against heeding the advice of the World Bank.https://dailypost.ng/2023/12/18/fuel-price-nlc-pdp-lp-issue-kick-as-world-bank-recommends-n750-litre/
In a statement to felicitate with the ex-president as he clocked 81 years, Okechukwu, who spoke under the aegis of the Buharists, said he (Buhari) resisted World Bank’s anti-people policies.
He extolled the ex-leader’s sterling qualities, especially “his pro-people agenda and his Spartan lifestyle.”
Okechukwu, a notable Buharist and former Director General of Voice of Nigeria (DG, VON), recalled how Buhari devoted his public service to the common man.
He said Buhari raised a marshal plan to confront the challenge of food security in the country, regretting that insurgency slowed down the drive to make Nigeria food sufficient.
He said: “this is the appropriate time to recount his pro-people policies, his resistance to the World Bank’s anti-people policies, even as military Head of State.
“Billions of naira in bail-out funds were granted to state governments, social investment programmes, reduction of infrastructural deficit and the famous Buhari’s unprecedented agrarian revolution to enhance Nigerians prosperity.
“We, the Buharists, make bold to state that because of his passion for food security he invested more than any other federal government in agriculture post 1970.
“Regrettably, we lament the truism that palpable insecurity diminished his quest for food security as his credo was- we must produce what we eat.”
The Buharists appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to continue with some of the laudable programmes, “particularly Buhari’s Agrarian Revolution like the Green Imperative Program designed to mechanise agriculture nationwide and Anchor Borrowers Programme,” under whatever nomenclature.
“We are happy that President Tinubu promised to continue with our icon’s initiatives, because that is a befitting way to honour the image of this great Nigerian who loves the poor and cares for the nation,” Okechukwu stated.
