The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was on the way to fulfilling its campaign promises to address insecurity, fix the economy and fight corruption.

The minister said the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is on the right track and there is no alternative to what it is doing.

Lai stated this at a meeting with the members of staff of the Nigerian Embassy in Madrid, Spain.

The meeting was on the sideline of the minister’s two-day official visit to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).

“I believe that we are on the right track, there will be some pains, but there is no alternative to what we are doing,’’ he said.

He said that the administration had fulfilled its campaign promises to address insecurity, fix the economy and fight corruption.

In the area of security, the minister said that when Buhari came on board, 14 of the20 Local Government Areas of Borno, four in Adamawa and three in Yobe were under the sovereign authority of Boko Haram.

He said that with proactive measures and soft diplomacy with neighbouring African countries, the U.S., France and the G-8 the country had “decisively deal with Book Haram.’’

“Today, all the major highways leading to Maiduguri are opened and about two months ago, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) played a league match in Maiduguri stadium,’’ he said.

On the renewed agitations in the Niger-Delta region and parts of the South-East, the minister reassured that the government would not marginalise any part of the country, and assured that economic development would go round toeveryone.

According to the minister, the present administration is implementing fiscal discipline and other measures to address the messed up economy it inherited from its predecessors.

He said with the temporarily painful measures, the government would turn the adversity to gains and ensure that never again would the nation run a corrupt, clueless and an oil-dependent economy.

The minister said that the administration had been unfairly accused of placing too much emphasis on the fight against corruption at the expense of addressing fundamental economic issues.

He stressed that no amount of economic reforms put in place could work unless the “monster of corruption is successfully dealt with.’’

Mohammed clarified that the administration’s fight against corruption was not selective, and that the government was not probing the 2015 elections campaign funds of the People’s Democratic Party.

He assured that that the government would continue to remain focused in its efforts to rebuilding the country.

The Minister Consular of the embassy, Mr Sola Akinlude, who conducted the minister round the embassy, said that the official population of Nigerians resident in Spain was about 100,000. (NAN)

Vendoor:
The headline is different from the content

blueto:
Yes, He has also fulfilled the economic promise of making one naira equivalent to one dollar .

what an insult to the people of Benue and people been butchered by herdsmen, aka the Libyans

The lies is too much now, how long are we going to condone this unserious and deceptive government of APC?

double0seven:
Nairaland has become really useless. People altering headlines of news article in order to castigate those they have beef against.

Minister Lai is saying that Buhari is on the right path to fulfilling or implementing promises he made on security, corruption and economy. At no time in the news article did he suggest that Buahri has already fulfilled those promises.