President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said that his
administration would recover all looted public funds and deal decisively
with perpetrators of corruption.
Buhari made the declaration in Lagos while speaking at the All Progressives Congress(APC) Presidential rally.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
the rally attracted a mammoth crowd of party faithful, who trooped out
in their thousands to welcome the president.
A National Leader of the party, Chief Bola
Tinubu; Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; APC National Chairman, Mr Adams
Oshiomole; Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola,
and Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, were with the
president at the rally.
Buhari Lagos APC Presidential Rally
Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos, Gov.
Ibikunle Amosun (Oyo), Gov. Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti) and Gov. Rotimi
Akeredolu (Ondo), were some of the other top government and party
personalities were at the rally.
Buhari said his administrations fight against
corruption was total and irreversible, saying that no treasury looter
would escape justice.
Let me assure you that whoever has stolen our
money, we will get hold of, take whatever they have stolen and keep them
in prison. It is our duty and responsibility, we will do it, he said.
The president also promised that his administration would continue to maintain progress in his campaign promises, if re-elected.
Buhari visits Lagos
He added that more achievements would be recorded in the areas of security, economy and e tfight against corruption.
Buhari said the All Progressives
Congress (APC) was the only party that had their interests at heart and
urged them to keep faith with the party in the February and March polls.
He thanked those at the rally for their patience and for defying the heat to attend the programme.
The President assured residents and indeed all Nigerians of his commitment to a better Nigeria.
Also speaking, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
said the APC was committed to the Nigerian project and urged the
electorate to reject the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the polls.
Osinbajo, who addressed the rally in Yoruba,
said the APC would achieve more progress in job creation,
infrastructural development and power generation, if re-elected.
The Vice President also said the current
administration would sustain the tempo of investment in rail
infrastructure, if elected.
He said the PDP almost looted the country dry during its 16years in power and that the APC was fixing the damage.
Osinbajo added that Nigerians could vouch for the integrity of Buhari, adding that even his enemies know he is not a thief.
He urged Lagos residents to turn out en masse to vote for APC on Feb. 16 and March 2.
Earlier, Oshiomole, Tinubu, Amaechi, Fashola and Ambode, among others, also addressed the rally.
NAN reports that APC flags were presented to
the governorship, Federal and state legislative candidates in the state
at the rally.
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