Presidential aspirant, Fela Durotoye, has released a 10-point agenda on what he plans to do to improve the condition of Nigeria if he is elected as president in the coming 2019 elections.

The management consultant released the document on Tuesday, May 29, 2018, noting that it is a condensed version of his policies while disclosing that a detailed one will be released soon.

In his 10-point plan, Durotoye noted that he'll focus on power, security, education, healthcare, infrastructure, business and industries and the economy. Others are enforcing the rule of law, creating jobs and reducing the cost of living in the areas of food, transport, housing, fuel and so on.
Cost of living

While expanding on his points, Durotoye promised that he will reduce inflation from double digit to single digit in order to ensure affordability of necessities, guaranteeing a minimum of 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate per annum in his first four years.

He said he'll reduce the pump price of refined products by encouraging the licensing of modular refineries, as well as also diversify intracity transport options, launch 36 agricultural hubs across the country, and create a national affordable housing policy that enables the development of affordable housing.
Power

Durotoye also promised to deliver a minimum of 12,000MW to Nigeria within 4 years which he says will attract investors.

He said his administration will achieve this by taking a multidimensional regional approach to power generation as well as prioritising the use of renewable energies for power generation while also partnering with the private sector in the area of increased funding for power projects across the federation.
Security

Durotoye assured Nigerians that he'll degrade, dismantle, and defeat terrorist group, Boko Haram, with human intelligence and return internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their homes or reabsorb them into a reconstructed community and 'safe cities'.

He further promised to address militancy across all geopolitical zones and put a complete end to activities of violent herdsmen and delist the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group to engage them in negotiations instead.

He also noted that military intervention under his command will be in line with the proportionate use of force and adherance to the fundamental human rights provisions.

The aspirant also promised to ensure that security forces are well-equipped with state-of-the-art weaponry and hinted at the creation of one Military Equipment Manufacturing Plant without providing details, for security reasons.
Education

Durotoye promised that his administration will increase the literacy rate by up to 90% in four years by making education compulsory and mandatory up to secondary school across the country. He noted that this will be achieved by increasing funding and partnership with the private sector and development partners, while ensuring that government expenditure on education is not less than 5% of GDP starting from the 2020 budget.

He said his administration will work with states and local governments to ensure nationwide rehabilitation and equipping of all existing government schools at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, while also ensuring free education for primary and secondary students in public schools.
Healthcare

To improve healthcare in the country, Durotoye promised to ensure access to at least one working federal health care facility in each of the 774 local government areas in Nigeria while also significantly increasing funding for medical research and development across all federal universities, and university teaching hospitals.

He also promised to increase government expenditure from 0.9% of GDP to a minimum of 5% of GDP, increase doctor to population ratio from 4:10,000 to 15:1000, and improve average life expectancy from 53 to 60 years.

He promised that there will be mandatory universal health insurance for every Nigerian with emphasis on maternity care to eliminate maternal mortality by 2023.

He also said his administration will create structured health alliances with specialists outside Nigeria (especially for cancer, HIV/AIDs, kidney-related problems, autism and cerebral palsy), as well as set up four regional healthcare cities to provide tertiary and specialist medical care and act as a medical tourism destination for the West African sub-region.
Infrastructure

In his policy statement, Durotoye promised to rehabilitate and construct inter-city roads across the country; provide support for the commencement of light rail metro-lines within all 36 states through public private partnerships to aid the easy movement of goods and services; as well as improve rural to urban transport systems by developing a pan-Nigeria rail system that works.

He also promised infrastructure in place for at least one additional sea port while also promising a reform of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).
Business and Industries

Durotoye promised that if he becomes president, he will double investors' confidence index from current 18pts to an all time high of 40pts within four years while also lowering the unemployment rate from 18% to an all time low of 5% with an improved foreign direct investment (FDI).

To reduce banking interest rates, Durotoye said his administration will ensure a lower inflation rate with robust monetary policies and promote an industry development centric banking sector which will ensure that the banking industry is able to lend to businesses at single digit interest rate which would thereby enable households to grow outputs.

According to him, his administration will improve the ease of doing business and make Nigeria the number one destination for investors in Africa by creating an enabling environment for locally-owned businesses and foreign investors to thrive and maximise profits.
Economy

Durotoye promised to diversify the economy by promoting non-oil sector growth through agriculture, mines and steel, manufacturing and the services industry by providing legal and fiscal incentives in these industries and sectors. He noted that this will be achieved by decentralising national resources to allow states generate more revenue at state level and attract investors.

He said he'll promote an enabling environment for private sector led growth and adopt Public Private Partnerships (PPP's) for sustainable revenue generation.

The leadership expert also promised that his administration will promote better tax compliance by reducing personal income tax (PIT) by a few points, and reducing the rate of company income tax (CIT) from 30% to 20%.
Job creation

Durotoye promised to reduce the unemployment rate in Nigeria by creating 12 million jobs in four years, 3 million for each year of his first term. He said these jobs will cut across education, health, economy, agriculture, amd the power sector.

He said a national jobs database will also be created to make it easier for job owners and job seekers to connect with each other while also promising to establish vocational and technical skills acquisition training centers across each of the six geo-political zones.

He also promised the implementation of a Start-Up Action Plan to support start-ups across the federation through a Start-Up Intervention Fund under the Bank of Industry (BOI).
Law enforcement and judicial system

In his final policy point, Durotoye promised to make Nigeria surpass Botswana as the least corrupt country in Africa during his four years in office.

He said his administration will pursue and implement a comprehensive police reform that'll provide support for state and community policing and create a more motivated and professional police force via decent pay, trainings and tools.

He also promised to support the creation of state judiciary councils in all of the federating units as well as the establishment of state courts of appeal to enable states appoint their own judges and have control over the payment of their judicial officers.

To expedite court processes, he promised an automation of court systems to ensure zero tolerance for inefficiency.

Durotoye concluded that to achieve a Nigeria that works properly, the country must evolve and rebuild with vision and values that'll create strong institutions.

He'll contest for the presidency in next year's election on the platform of the Alliance for a New Nigeria (ANN).

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He said he'll reduce the pump price of refined products by encouraging the licensing of modular refineries, as well as also diversify intracity transport options, launch 36 agricultural hubs across the country, and create a national affordable housing policy that enables the development of affordable housing.
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He further promised to address militancy across all geopolitical zones and put a complete end to activities of violent herdsmen and delist the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group to engage them in negotiations instead.


He also promised to increase government expenditure from 0.9% of GDP to a minimum of 5% of GDP, increase doctor to population ratio from 4:10,000 to 15:1000, and improve average life expectancy from 53 to 60 years.

He promised that there will be mandatory universal health insurance for every Nigerian with emphasis on maternity care to eliminate maternal mortality by 2023.
Economy

Durotoye promised to diversify the economy by promoting non-oil sector growth through agriculture, mines and steel, manufacturing and the services industry by providing legal and fiscal incentives in these industries and sectors. He noted that this will be achieved by decentralising national resources to allow states generate more revenue at state level and attract investors..
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I wish we have a government that will do all this

interesting

How I wish we can have a Nigeria of our dream

We have always heard all these. The question is how does he intend to do them..

He will launch 36 Agricultural hubs- where and where will these agricultural hubs be located at

He will encourage licencing of modular refiniries- how many modular refineries and their capacities would he need to licence. And how will the licence process go.

Create National affordable housing poilicy- what is that policy, what will make it work and how will it be different from the previous and present government's policy .

Complete end to activities of violent herdsmen- how does he intend to do that, which laws or policies will he pass. He needs to first of all propose the root causes and say how he intends to tackle this causes

How does he intend to increase the doctor to citizens ratio, by building more universities and teaching hospitals or reducing the average number of years spent in the university or by reducing capital flight(and how does he intend to do these) , how much will it cost, which policies will he implement.

How much will the universal mandatory health insurance for everyone cause the economy ( when Obama campaigned with this exact thing in form of Obama care he was able to tell Americans how much of tax payers money it will cost, how many citizens will be covered and the advantages over the other forms of healthcare. It was in that strength that the Republicans and Democrats had a debate on if it's a good choice or not).


"Durotoye promised to diversify the economy by promoting non-oil sector growth through agriculture, mines and steel, manufacturing and the services industry by providing legal and fiscal incentives in these industries and sectors. He noted that this will be achieved by decentralising national resources to allow states generate more revenue at state level and attract investors." - this is the only part where he actually said how he intended to achieve his promise( diversifying his economy). Even though he didn't mention the legal and fiscal insentives at least he was able to mention recourse control in his words. Now voters can decide if they want it or not and be one of the things they will consider in either voting for him or not and if he wins and in four years he doesn't do that we can say he failed to put a bill for state to control their resources.

Durotoye also promised to deliver a minimum of 12,000MW to Nigeria within 4 years which he says will attract investors- how does he intend to do this. How much will it cost. Will he increase the power bills or which laws need to be passed for this development.

Military Equipment Manufacturing Plant without providing details, for security reasons.- the security reason isn't making sense. How.much will this manufacturing plant cost. Will it be managed by military or concessioned. What kind of military equipments and do we have the raw materials for the manufacturing of these equipments in Nigeria


He said his administration will work with states and local governments to ensure nationwide rehabilitation and equipping of all existing government schools at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, while also ensuring free education for primary and secondary students in public schools- yet he failed to provide how many public schools are in Nigeria. How do you intend to partner with state and LGAs; through laws or financial aid. How will it be different from. The ETF of the Federal government that has been there since 1999 and clearly hasn't solved the issues


To reduce banking interest rates, Durotoye said his administration will ensure a lower inflation rate with robust monetary policies and promote an industry development centric banking sector which will ensure that the banking industry is able to lend to businesses at single digit interest rate which would thereby enable households to grow outputs.- how does he intend to do this. Obama while campaigning came out with a tax reform document which was aimed at doing this with specific details on how to cut down running cost of government, tax the rich more and the poor less. Trump while campaigning came out with his document that said businesses should be taxed less so they can invest more. People agreed and disagrees on both divides but at least they knew what this guy's stood for and how they intend to achieve whatever they wanted to do.



From all am seeing, there isn't much difference in the previous and failed present administration's agenda with his. A bit of a little improvement in being more elaborate on the promise. But that was what it;was promises without a laid down research and roadmap to achieve this. So what makes him different. Nothing really. What's the difference between this and Apc's ₦,5000 stipends for unemployed youths and 10,000 megawatts of power supply and bla bla bla.

Look at America, Trump said the this has he would do to improve on the immigration problem. A lot of people didn't agree with him but at least everyone knows where he stands on Issues. He wants to build a wall, he wanted to repel Obamacare(the fact that he didn't say what in particular he will replace it with an obvious sign that he didn't know. And from all indications he didn't know what to replace it with and now he is running helter skelter, for laws to put a better care plan proving that he wasn't prepared in that area) When Obama was contesting everyone knew what he wanted to do and how he wanted to do them. Everyone knew he was going to support abortion, create a universal care plan, begin documenting, undocumented/illegal immigrants. Etc. But in Nigeria it's just promises and no value and unfortunately even the young candidates like Fela Durotoye and Sowore are towing that line. Who will now evolutionise politics in this country?