I want to take this last opportunity, before we go to the polls
on Saturday March 28 and April 11 respectively, to thank
everyone who has supported our campaigns. I am humbled
and grateful to have had the opportunity to meet so many of
my fellow Nigerians who have helped to carry the message
of change across our great country.
This is the fourth time that I would be standing for election
as the President of Nigeria. All these years, I have been
driven by a keen awareness of the potential greatness of our
country and the desire to provide the true leadership that
will unleash this huge potential. I believe that a stable and
prosperous Nigeria is not only important to Nigerians. It is
also important to Africa and the rest of the world. The
evidence of this is the unprecedented attention that our
country will receive this weekend. On Saturday, the whole
world would wait with baited breath for the greatest black
nation on earth to take charge of its destiny. We must
therefore not miss the significance of this moment. We must
not let ourselves and our country down.
At no other time in our history is Nigeria in such an urgent
need of strong and competent leadership. Sadly, at no other
time is this leadership so sorely absent in our country. We
live in a time of great opportunities and great peril. It is only
a leader that understands these in equal measure that can
find the rightful place for Nigeria among the great Nations of
the world.
I have travelled extensively around Nigeria in the last three
months. In the course of my travels, I encountered directly,
what I have always believed: that a Hausa man’s desire for
security is not different from the Ijaw woman’s desire to feel
secured in any part of our country. An Igbo woman’s desire
for her children to get quality education and find
employment is not different from the Yoruba man’s dream
for his children to become a useful member of our society. A
wife’s desperate need for affordable and quality healthcare
for her husband diagnosed with prostate cancer in Enugu is
not different from a husband’s desire to save the life of his
wife diagnosed with ovarian cancer in Lagos. Invariably, our
fears are the same; our dreams are the same; and our
problems are the same. Regardless of the language we
speak, or the way we understand and worship God, what
affects anyone of us, affects everyone of us.
Our economy is celebrated as the largest in Africa, yet our
country is home to the continent’s highest number of people
living in extreme poverty. Our youth population is larger
than the combined population of many of our neighbors, yet
our failure to plan and create opportunities for them is
turning them to a social time bomb rather than economic
catalysts. A band of ragtag terrorist group has threatened
our territorial integrity, killed thousands of Nigerians,
displaced our people and abducted our children. The almost
60, 000 Nigerians who have become refugees in neighboring
countries represent a budding threat to sub-regional
stability.
However, even in the face of these daunting challenges, I
see a great opportunity for change. We have to start by
rebuilding the trust and confidence of Nigerians in their
government. No citizen will respect a government under
whose watch more than 200 girls were abducted. This
singular act can only portray the government as insensitive,
incompetent or both. When I become president, reuniting
these children with their families will, without doubts, be a
top priority. Rebuilding the army and other security
agencies will also be a top priority of my government. I will
ensure that never again will terrorists find a safe haven in
Nigeria.
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Recent fall in international price of crude leaves us badly
exposed and vulnerable. Dwindling oil revenue also means
that we are going to face serious financial challenges in the
months ahead. However, even as daunting as this appears,
it also provides us with great opportunity to diversify our
economy and finally give meaning to the widely held belief
that our prosperity as a nation would not continue to
depend on the resources buried under our feet, but on the
productive capacity of our people.
No matter how much resources we have, if not properly
utilized, it would only create a few billionaires and leave
majority of our people in poverty. Under the current
administration, corruption has enjoyed unprecedented
prosperity and this has been at the heart of most of our
government failings, including insecurity, broken
infrastructure and growing inequality in our country.
My government will have a zero tolerance for corruption. I
will set a personal example and run a government that truly
serves the people rather than serve themselves and a
privileged few. Like I have repeatedly maintained that if
Nigeria does not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria.
We must not allow Nigeria to die. Therefore, we must do all
that is necessary to root out this evil that has reduced our
great country to a laughing stock of the world. We must
begin to rebuild the social fabrics of our society and teach a
different experience to our youth in the values of hard work,
discipline, integrity and service.
The change that I seek therefore; is a change from the
current regime of mindless of corruption and profligacy; a
change from fear and insecurity to peace and stability; a
change from religious and ethnic divisiveness to unity,
equity and justice. This is the change that my party stands
for. This is the change that I am committed to bringing
about as President. Give me the chance to lead you in
rebuilding a Nigeria that all of us can be proud of once
again.
As we come out to vote on Saturday, I appeal to all
Nigerians to shun violence in whatever form. It is the right
of every adult Nigerian to vote and expect that their votes
would count in a free, fair and credible election. However,
we also have a responsibility to respect the choice of others
and grant them the same treatment that we expect.
I also want to call on all our men and women in uniform, the
Judiciary, and all others who have constitutional
responsibility to safeguard our democracy, to remember
that their responsibility is primarily to Nigerians and the
survival of Nigeria. They must therefore not allow anyone to
use them to subvert the will of the Nigerian people. I believe
that their dreams and aspirations are not different from
those of other Nigerians.

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This is a prepared speech. The Buhari we know would have made some inciting statement should he lose the election come Saturday . APC has done well to repackage this man. My only fear is that the heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked. He may be appearing harmless and gentlemanly but may have a sinister motive. Anyway may the odds favour the whole candidates come Saturday. #votedontfight

NIGERIA THE CHANGE IS HERE

THIS IS YOUR YEAR OF CHANGE

BUHARI IS THE MAN NIGERIA NEEDS

NOW DON'T

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