SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, AT THE LAUNCH OF THE NATIONAL RE-ORIENTATION CAMPAIGN, CHANGE BEGINS WITH ME, AT THE BANQUET HALL OF THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA, ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH 2016

PROTOCOLS:
I welcome you all to this important occasion of the launching of the National Re-orientation Campaign, called ‘Change Begins With Me’. Nigeria today is passing through a challenging moment where hardly anything works in a normal manner. Many have attributed this phenomenon to the total breakdown of our core values over the years.

2. It is safe to say today that honesty, hard work, Godliness have given way to all kinds of manifestations of lawlessness and degeneration in our national life. This is why we have among our cardinal objectives ‘change’, which implies the need for a change of attitude and mindset in our everyday life.

3 I need not mention the serious effort we have engaged in since the inception of this administration on the fight against corruption in our public life. With the progress we have so far made in that regard, we feel the need to ensure that we put in place the necessary sustainable framework for action and measures that will help to entrench and consolidate the progress achieved so far.

4. This we believe can best be maintained through attitudinal change, and the change of our mindset in private and public life. The campaign we are about to launch today is all about the need for us to see change not merely in terms of our economic, social progress but in terms of our personal behaviour on how we conduct ourselves, engage our neigbhours, friends and generally how we relate with the larger society in a positive and definitive way and manner that promotes our common good and common destiny, change at home, change in the work place, change at traffic junction, change at traffic lights etc.

5. This campaign is part of the determination of our party to seek to carry all Nigerians along on the journey to a better and greater society that we all can be proud of.

6. There is no doubt that our value system has been badly eroded over the years. The long-cherished and time honoured, time-tested virtues of honesty, integrity, hard work, punctuality, good neighbourliness, abhorrence of corruption and patriotism, have given way in the main to dishonesty, indolence, unbridled corruption and widespread impunity.

7. The resultant effect of this derailment in our value system is being felt in the social, political and economic sphere. It is the reason that some youths will take to cultism and brigandage instead of studying hard or engaging in decent living; it is the reason that some elements will break pipelines and other oil facilities, thus robbing the nation of much-needed resources; it is the reason that money belonging to our commonwealth will be brazenly stolen by the same public officials to whom they were entrusted; it is the reason why motorist drive through red traffic lights, it is the reason that many will engage in thuggery and vote-stealing during elections; it is part of what has driven our economy into deep problem out of which we are now working hard to extricate ourselves. Every one of us must have a change from our old ways of doing things, we cannot fold our arms and allow things to continue the old way.

8. We must resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship, pettiness and immaturity that have poisoned our country for so long. Let us summon a new spirit of responsibility, spirit of service, of patriotism and sacrifice, Let us all resolve to pitch in and work hard and look after, not only ourselves but one another, What the current problem has taught us is that we cannot have a thriving army of rent seekers and vested interests, while the majority suffers.

9. Rather than sit back and complain endlessly, we have decided to act pragmatically, with the launch of this National Re-orientation Campaign. The campaign will not be a sprint but a marathon that will run the course of our tenure. We are under no illusion that the changes we seek will happen overnight, but we have no doubt that the campaign will help restore our value system and rekindle our nationalistic fervor

10. I am therefore appealing to all Nigerians to be part of this campaign. Our citizens must realize that the change they want to see begins with them, and that personal and social reforms are not theoretic exercise. If you have not seen the change in you, you cannot see it in others or even the larger society. In other words, before you ask ‘where is the change they promised us’, you must first ask how far have I changed my ways ‘what have I done to be part of the change for the greater good of society’.

11. While the government will drive the Change Begins With Me’ campaign, it must be strongly supported by all concerned individually. In this regard the private sector is a major stakeholder. Indeed when the campaign succeeds, it will impact heavily on the private sector. A punctual, diligent and hardworking staff can only be of benefit of not just himself or herself or the organization they work for but to various governments whether at local, state or Federal level.

12. While congratulating the stakeholders, especially Ministry of Information and Culture and the National Orientation Agency for conceiving this campaign, I charge all to pursue the campaign with vigour and ensure its sustenance by taking it to all the nook and crannies of this country, with the aim of getting the buy in of the old, the young, the rich, the poor irrespective of gender or other social positions.

13. Your Excellencies, Honourable Ministers, Members of the National Assembly, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is now my pleasure to formally launch and handover the instrument of the Change Campaign tagged Change Begins With Me to the Honourable Minister for Information and Culture, for transmission to all Nigerians and friends of Nigeria. Indeed I say to the glory of Mighty Allah, “Change Begins With Me”

14. Thank you all for your kind attention


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Change, change, change..


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If you like let the change begin and end with you. I no send you. We are tired of your kind of change

Positive change begins with me!

Let the change start from Aso Rock. Buhari knows too well that he cannot change anything so he is looking excuse. Change begins with you is now scapegoat.


Today is my Birthday. leave Buhari Wish me well.

This is official Logo


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God bless you sir. #istandwithbuhari

The change begin with the senators, rep and all arms of government.
The change begin as soon as those senators are placed on minimum wage.
Those wuru wuru allowance must stop.
Nigeria problem is from top to bottom.

It really makes me sad how Nigerian youth with no benefit or whatsoever always come and chant APC , PDP why cant we just unit and fight for our future .

Ask any of the leader her plan for a common man, he will say What's his business. In the past we saw a governor that told someone go and die, that alone is an hate word that cause for resignation. But all the youth could do is to start making a chant and making it looks like a joke.

Each and everyone of us has been taken for granted.

It's not affecting me in anyway but most time I think about my family in there.

Who this one epp

see oga lie mouth like soak away pit

We are waiting to see the details unveiled.

Nigerians voted change and they expected it 18 months ago but sadly things have gone very sour in the land.

While the people may believe that PMB means well, there is no evidence that he has followership in his party in terms of doing well.

Has there been any chnage in the house of assemby? Has there been any change in the judiciary? If no, what can the poor masses do to effect any true change?

Unless you be the change, from the top, dont expect any person to follow you! The fish can only rot from the head. Once the head is clean, the body will heal. The head means the 3 arms of government!

As long as padding continues at the top and the leaders continue with business as usual events like this will fail to gain speed.

Information Ministry in Nigeria must go beyond lying and making cheap propaganda- This is necessary for change to happen.

Right now the people are hungry. They say a hungry man is an angry man. So they may not hear any preaching.

Change means transparency at the top - How much does Nigeria have? How much cash has been seized? How much is being spent on what? If the government wants private entities to decalre results why are they not doing so?

So much noise about budget - so little information on actual. Nothing has changed. Let our leaders be the change. We need transparency.

The Senate makes all the noise about budgets every year, yet Nigerians donot know what the Senate spends, how and on what? Be the change.

To lead well you must listen and you must speak. Do not just speak alone. Nigerians are yelling out - Fix the economy. It is not enough to say FG has a plan. What is the plan?

There are some very incompetent and clueless ministers handling some very key portfolios. They speak well but achieve so little. This administration is creating new 'diezanis', people who are so sure of themselves but are rapidly destroying the reputation of government by the way they speak.

The idea is good and should be commended. But I just wonder if anyone is hearing you. Even those seated in that room are possibly there to fill up the seats. Do they believe you? Will they support you?

Please fix the economy urgently and stop blaming past administrations.

Buhari is now telling Nigerians to ask themselves if they have changed before asking him for the change he promised.

This is the height

God knows am tired of reading long stories to discover dat d r future impossible tenses..may God help us

How would this help me secure a good job
Yeye government

Was he able to hear the audience?

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Waste of money, nonsense.

Well said Mr. President, Sir

You have a vision and a mission to re-position Nigeria on the path of greatness once again. I stand with you (with my right hand on my chest).

There is Hope. Nigeria will be great again.


Long live The Federal Republic of Nigeria

For those who read George Orwells Animal Farm and 1984, can you see any similarities?

DON'T FEED THE TROLLS

My man of the year

In as much as I don't believe the lies told by these our politicians but I do believe that the change truly starts with us. Let us reason it na.
We will rather wail and complain about the economy. What have you done to change your own life situation? You rely immensely on Dollar( another man's currency) .foreigners package Groundnut oil/ vegetable oil for us and we buy. Have you seen any neatly packaged palm oil? If yoy have seen, it is not common. If we clear the log off our eyes first we might be able to stone these POliticians well. You know what I mean na

this man is as useless as ueue in queue......

[size=16pt]2015 vs 2016[/size] This is the real caption of what he means.... A task for all. We must change by force by fire!

He Is A Great Man.
Better Than Pogba.

sai Buhari sai Fashola sai Amaechi Sai Goje Sai Rochas in fact Sai APC wailers should go to hell

Change begins with keeping to your campaign promises.



Meanwhile, Today is my birthday. So, I told a friend I can get at least 100likes as a celebration from Nairalanders. Let's do this.

Why use Fulani occult logo for the campaign

Iffa hear change begin with me again ehhh.

God bless my president