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Forty-one Promises From APC, Will It Ever Be Fulfilled? By Tony Osborg by Episteme2(m): 11:17am On Oct 20, 2015 |
Now that it seem like we are going to have a complete Federal
Government with ministers, it is important that we begin to
look at critical issues and promises that were made during the
campaign by both the APC and its presidential aspirant.
Below are forty-one promises contained in the APC
Manifesto, as published by the party prior to the
Presidential election. The promises below are extracted
from the two official documents released by APC as their
Manifesto titled “Securing Nigeria’s Future” and “Roadmap to
a New Nigeria”, all published by the APC and signed by the
then Presidential aspirant, now President Muhammadu
Buhari.
From “Securing Nigeria’s Future”:
1. Initiate action to amend the Nigerian Constitution with a
view to devolving powers, duties, and responsibilities to
states in order to entrench true Federalism and the Federal
spirit. (This simply means that the APC will support #
TrueFiscalFederalism): Page 6;
2. Amend the Constitution to remove immunity from
prosecution for elected officers in criminal cases: Page 6;
3. Require full disclosure in media outlets, of all government
contracts over N100m prior to award and during
implementation at regular intervals: Page 6;
4. Amend the Constitution to require Local Governments to
publish their meeting minutes, service performance data,
and items of spending over N10M: Page 6;
5. Consult and amend the Constitution to enable States and
Local Governments to create city, Local Government and
State Policing systems: Page 7;
6. Bring permanent peace and solutions to the insurgency
issues in the North-East; the Niger Delta; and other conflict
prone states and areas such as Plateau, Benue, Bauchi,
Borno, Abia, Taraba, Yobe, and Kaduna: Page 8;
7. Initiate policies to ensure that Nigerians are free to live
and work in any part of the country by removing state of
origin, tribe, ethnic and religious affiliations from
documentation requirements in our identification of
citizens, and replace these with State of Residence and
fashion out the appropriate minimal qualification for
obtaining such a state of residency, nation-wide: Page 8;
8. Make our economy one of the fastest growing emerging
economies in the world with a real GDP growth averaging at
least 10-12 percent annually: Page 9;
9. Five million new jobs by 2019: Page 9;
10. Put in place a N300bn Regional Growth Fund with an
average of N50bn in each geo-political region…to encourage
private sector enterprise and to support places currently
reliant on only on the public sector, to migrate to a private
sector reality: Page 10;
11. Amend the Constitution and the Land Use Act: Page 10;
12. Create an additional middleclass of at least four million
new home owners by 2019: Page 10;
13. Create a Social Welfare Programme of at least Five
Thousand Naira (N5000) that will cater for the 25 million
poorest and most vulnerable citizens upon the
demonstration of children’s enrolment in school and
evidence of immunisation to help promote family stability:
Page 10;
14. Provide allowances to the discharged but unemployed
Youth Corps members for Twelve (12) months while in the
skills and entrepreneurial development programmes: Page
10;
15. Construct a 5,000km of Superhighway including service
trunks and (b) building of up to 6,800km of modern railway
completed by 2019: Page 11;
16. Embark on PPP schemes that will ensure every one of
the 36 states has one functional airport: Page 11;
17. Speedily pass the much delayed Petroleum Industry Bill
(PIB) and ensure that local content issues are fully
addressed: Page 12;
18. Make Nigeria the world’s leading exporter of LNG
through the creation of strategic partnerships: Page 12;
19. Targeting up to 20 percent of our annual budget for
Education: Page 13;
20. Provide One Meal a day for all Primary school pupils.
That will create jobs in Agriculture, Catering, and Delivery
Services: Page 14;
21. Establish at least six new universities of Science and
Technology with satellite campuses in various states: Page
14;
22. Establish technical colleges and vocational centres in
each state of the federation: Page 14;
23. Increase the quality of all federal government owned
hospitals to world class standard by 2019: Page 15;
24. Provide free antenatal care for pregnant women; free
health care for babies and children up to school going age
and for the aged; and free treatment for those afflicted with
infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS: Page
15;
25. Create an Insurance Policy for our Journalists as the
nation faces hard times and our Journalists face more
dangers: Page 15;
26. Establish Zonal world class sports academies and
training institutes and ensure that Nigeria occupies a place
of pride in global sports and athletics: Page 16;
27. Assist Nollywood to fully develop into world class movie
industry that can compete effectively with Hollywood and
Bollywood in due course: Page 16;
28. Guarantee that women are adequately represented in
government appointments and provide greater
opportunities in education, job creation, and economic
empowerment: Page 16;
29. Use the Party structures to promote the concept of
reserving a minimum number of seats in the States and
National Assembly, for women: Page 16;
30. Create shelter belts in states bordering the Sahara Desert
to mitigate and reverse the effects of the expanding desert:
Page 17;
In the second document titled “Roadmap to a New Nigeria”:
11. Create 20,000 jobs per state immediately for those with
a minimum qualification of secondary school leaving
certificate and who participate in technology and vocational
training: Page 4;
32. Place the burden of proving innocence in corruption
cases on persons with inexplicable wealth: Page 7;
33. Pursue legislation expanding forfeiture and seizure of
assets laws and procedure with respect to inexplicable
wealth, regardless of whether there is a conviction for
criminal conduct or not: Page 7;
34. Provide free tertiary education to students pursuing
Science and Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM): Page 9;
35. Provide free tertiary education to education majors and
stipends prior to their employment as teachers: Page 9;
36. Create incentives and dedicate special attention to the
education of girls: Page 9;
37. Ensure every child attending primary school is properly
nourished and ready to learn by providing a Free Meal a
Day: Page 9;
38. Achieve the construction of one million low-cost houses
within four years for the poor: Page 11;
39. Stop all travels abroad at government expense for the
purpose of medical treatment: Page 13;
40. Provide incentives for Nigerian doctors and health
practitioners working abroad to return home, to strengthen
the health care industry in Nigeria and provide quality care
to those who need it: Page 14;
41. Make sure people at a local level benefit from mining
and mineral wealth by vesting all mineral rights in land to
states: Page 17.
Please note that these documents were officially released by
the All Progressive Congress (APC) as its official manifesto,
thereby making the documents legally binding now that it is
in charge of the central government.
As contained in the document, the then Presidential aspirant
of the APC (now President) said, “This document sets out our
side of the bargain: the things I as your future president,
want to do to change Nigeria for the better.” blogs.premiumtimesng.com/?p=169284 |
Re: Forty-one Promises From APC, Will It Ever Be Fulfilled? By Tony Osborg by donTbone(m): 11:18am On Oct 20, 2015 |
7 points agenda..was it ever accomplished! |
Re: Forty-one Promises From APC, Will It Ever Be Fulfilled? By Tony Osborg by kossyablaze(m): 11:21am On Oct 20, 2015 |
Yes in 2050 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Forty-one Promises From APC, Will It Ever Be Fulfilled? By Tony Osborg by Princecalm(m): 11:25am On Oct 20, 2015 |
even Obama has not fulfilled all his promises. |
Re: Forty-one Promises From APC, Will It Ever Be Fulfilled? By Tony Osborg by Nobody: 11:54am On Oct 20, 2015 |
No politican has ever fulfilled all his campaign promises........... Besides, it's not even up to a year for chrissake!!! |
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