Barely 24 hours after leaders from eastern part of Nigeria declared their support for the candidature of Atiku Abubakar
and Peter Obi of the Peoples Democratic Party ahead of the 2019
presidential election, the middle belt region has also stated its own
position.
This is as the Middle Belt Youth Leaders Forum (MBYLF) has thrown its
weight behind the second term ambition of President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to the forum, Buhari had done creditably in his more than three and a half years leadership sojourn in Nigeria.
The region claimed that before Buhari took over the mantle of
leadership in 2015, “there was absolute total absence of sanity in our
national as well as absence of sense of national pride.”
The National President of the group, Comrade Aaron Adah while
addressing the press on Thursday, said the emergence of Buhari had since
returned Nigeria to the path of glory.
He specifically said Buhari’s war over insurgency should earn him another term in office.
According to him, “Today, we can proudly say, in spite of the
enormity of the challenges, the narrative has changed positively. There
are visible signs of our regeneration under the Buhari Presidency. And
there is cause to be excited and we are buoyed to also, embolden our
leader, Mr. President by canvassing public support for his
administration.
“In fairness to Nigerians and the people of our region, we cannot
conscientiously say President Buhari has solved all the problems he
inherited in Nigeria. He has not even met all the promises pledged to
Nigerians when traversed this nation seeking our electoral mandate in
2014/2015.
“Nevertheless, we now see a leadership of Nigeria determined and,
committed, which keeps striving every day to improve our lives as
citizens of this great country. We see a leader and a government which
are more interested in lifting us from the doldrums, than consolidating
on the degeneration it met, wrapped in self-serving tales.
“Let’s together look at a few areas the Buhari Presidency has
impacted on Nigeria so significantly. It is necessary because these are
partisan times and Nigeria is facing another general elections in the
next few months to enthrone fresh batch of elected leaders.
“The terrorists brought pains, sorrows, agonies and despair, through
their unchallenged atrocious acts and other heinous crimes, resulting
into deaths, abductions, violent captivity of whole communities in the
Northeast; unchallenged attacks on security formations and erection of
serfdoms for hostages, where they held Nigerians in dehumanizing
conditions in secret hideouts within our territories.
“We are proud and any other citizen of Nigeria should also express
happiness that under Buhari, the 24 LGAs Boko Haram insurgents captured
totally and another six LGAs, the insurgents had partial control, and
established their peculiar “ Islamic Caliphate, “ with foisted flags
have been rescued by Nigerian troops under the guardian ambience of the
COAS and Leader of the counter-insurgency operations in Nigeria, Lt.
Gen. TY Buratai.”