Spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation Festus Keyamo (SAN) yesterday said the president is confronting the wheelers and dealers of the Nigerian society to protect the poor.
He said those at the receiving end of the Presidentโs actions are behind the blackmails and the fake news to discredit his government.
Keyamo spoke in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, while delivering a lecture organised by the Kwara state chapter of the Buhari/Osinbajo Project 2019.
He added that President Buhari had taken the bullets from the rich to protect the poor in the last three years of his administration and urged the people to reciprocate the gesture.
Keyamo said: โSome elements have accused us of not fulfilling our promises of making โNigeria heaven on earth.โ
โBut the ultimate end of any struggle is to establish a system that will make a deliberate effort to confront the wheelers and dealers of the society; to protect the poor, the vulnerable and the weak. I can tell you that there is no government in the history of this country since 1960 that has compensated the poor, the vulnerable in the last three years than this government.
โThere is no government that has gone after recovering what belongs to you with serious-mindedness more than this government in the last three years. I am sure you were all living witnesses to the humongous amount of money recovered in pit latrines, wardrobes, in villages, water tanks and even graveyards. Whilst this was going on, the blackmails, the fake new were so intense. What Buhari has done in the last three years was to take the bullet from the rich in order to protect the poor.
โPrevious governments sold our people out for political correctness. But Buhari refused. For six months they refused to pass the budget. He was looking at them, they were looking at him.
โWhen they were tired, the same bad eggs who left us in this state were the champions of those forces. So you have a President who has fought for you, why canโt you fight for him. This is the time he needs you more to fight for him. It is reciprocal and that is why we must remind ourselves today why we must stand firmly behind him.โ
Keyamo described those that defected as self-serving and having no interest in the masses.
โMost of those bad eggs that left us complained of inclusiveness.
โInclusiveness is a euphemism for sharing formula. And that was the system of governance that was established before 2015; before President Buhari came on board.
โThose bad eggs that have left us, rather than accept that we should invest money on infrastructure they would rather the money is shared among themselves, the system we had before 2015 was the one that denied physical infrastructure in this country.
