APC’s roadmap ahead of the 2019 elections, the ‘Next Level’ by Buhari

Four years ago, we promised Nigerians real change – in what we
do and how we do it. Nigerians sent a clear message in the last
election, and our platform offered a new, ambitious plan for a
secure, prosperous and corruption-free country. We have worked hard
to fulfil our promises – and while the road may have been
difficult, over the last three and a half years, we have laid the
foundations for a strong, stable and prosperous country for the
majority of our people. Foundational work is not often visible,
neither is it glamorous – but it is vital to achieving the kind of
country we desire. Judging by the prior depth of decay,
deterioration and disrepair that Nigeria had sunken into, we are
certain that these past few years have put us in good stead to
trudge on the Next Level of building an even stronger nation for
our people. First things had to come first. We were a nation at war
– but we delivered on our commitment to secure the territorial
integrity of our nation in the face of a raging insurgency that
devastated many parts of the North East. We liberated 17 Local
Government Areas from the grip of insurgency. Brokering and
sustaining peace in the Niger Delta has also been crucial to
stabilising the polity. Despite the difficult circumstances
presented by weak oil prices and reduced oil production, we
delivered on our commitment to make public investments to spur
economic growth, job creation, and broad-based prosperity.
Agriculture continues to expand our economic base, as do our
investments in deficient infrastructure across the length and
breadth of this nation. We implemented a responsible and
transparent fiscal plan for the challenging economic times that saw
us doing more even with lesser oil revenues. Grand scale corruption
perpetrated at the highest level of government is now a thing of
the past, just as the Treasury Single Account (TSA) has made it
more difficult for ministries, departments and agencies to exercise
the unrestrained liberties that helped foster a climate conducive
to corruption. The nation’s wealth is now being invested in capital
projects to expand infrastructure and connect people, goods and
opportunities by rail, road and air. Also, the Federal Government
supported state governments with bailouts that enabled them to pay
workers on their payroll. We took an unprecedented step towards
creating a fairer and more equitable society by implementing
Africa’s biggest social investment programme. Through the National
Social Investment Programme, we are providing direct support to
over 13 million Nigerians who need it by giving relief and
assistance to unemployed youth, our children, the weak and
vulnerable as well as small and medium businesses. But even as we
lay the foundation for a stable and prosperous nation, we
acknowledge there is still much to do. The Next Levelof effort
focuses on job creation across various sectors. From an enlargement
of the N-Power programme to investing in technology and creative
sector jobs to agriculture and revolutionising access to credit for
entrepreneurs and artisans, there is scope for over 15 million new
jobs. The march away from a mono-economy must continue with our
industrialisation plan coming to fore. With specific plans underway
to exploit the comparative advantage of the geopolitical zones and
different states by developing 6 Industrial Parks and 109 Special
Production and Processing Centres (SPPCs) across each senatorial
district, our incremental move away from oil dependence is assured.
In addition, our development of the Special Economic Zones will
quickly concretise our Made in Nigeria for Export (MINE) plan. To
sustain food production and value addition, our mechanisation
policy for agriculture will make tractors and processors easily
accessible and available for farmers across Nigeria. We will
continue a wide scale training policy, prioritising technology to
reach the demography of young people within the productive sector
on a massive scale even as we create jobs and growth within our
economy. We believe that our people who are still in poverty have a
direct way out and up through our expanded National Social
Investment Programme. We believe we can implement the painstaking
and comprehensive policy and work we have done to bring an end to
the perennial conflict between farmers and herders – a conflict
which is heightened by a struggle for land, water and pasture and
the effects of climate change and every now and then, opportunistic
and cynical manipulation by political actors. We are implementing a
blend of measures that ensures that justice, order, modernisation
and new economic paradigms emerge. Perhaps our biggest ambition yet
is the overhaul of our education sector. Every child counts – and
simply, whatever it takes to prepare our teachers, curriculum and
classrooms to attain the right educational goals that grow our
country, will be done. We will remodel 10,000 schools every year
and retrain our teachers to impart science, technology,
engineering, art and mathematics using coding, animation, robotics
to re-interpret our curriculum. We know that to succeed, moral
integrity and conscience must continue to form the dominant
character of our nation and its leadership. Corruption is an
existential threat to Nigeria. Despite the gains we have made in
closing the gates, we know that there is still much ground to cover
to stop systemic corruption. We are committed to deepening the work
we started this first term such that the nation’s assets and
resources continue to be organised and utilised to do good for the
common man. The next four years will be quite significant for our
country. Nigeria is faced with a choice to keep building a new
Nigeria- making a break from its tainted past which favoured an
opportunistic few. Our choices will shape us – our economic
security and our future prosperity. Nigeria, more than ever before,
needs a stable and people-focused government to move the agenda for
our country forward. Join us on this journey to the Next Level of a
prosperous, strong and stable Nigeria! Nigerians, we are all going
higher!

Read more at:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/11/apcs-roadmap-ahead-of-the-2019-elections-the-next-level-by-buhari/

Four years ago, we promised Nigerians real change – in what we
do and how we do it. Nigerians sent a clear message in the last
election, and our platform offered a new, ambitious plan for a
secure, prosperous and corruption-free country. We have worked hard
to fulfil our promises – and while the road may have been
difficult, over the last three and a half years, we have laid the
foundations for a strong, stable and prosperous country for the
majority of our people. Foundational
work is not often visible, neither is it glamorous – but it is
vital to achieving the kind of country we desire. Judging by the
prior depth of decay, deterioration and disrepair that Nigeria had
sunken into, we are certain that these past few years have put us
in good stead to trudge on the Next Level of building an even
stronger nation for our people. First things had to come first. We
were a nation at war – but we delivered on our commitment to secure
the territorial integrity of our nation in the face of a raging
insurgency that devastated many parts of the North East. We
liberated 17 Local Government Areas from the grip of insurgency.
Brokering and sustaining peace in the Niger Delta has also been
crucial to stabilising the polity. Despite the difficult
circumstances presented by weak oil prices and reduced oil
production, we delivered on our commitment to make public
investments to spur economic growth, job creation, and broad-based
prosperity. Agriculture continues to expand our economic base, as
do our investments in deficient infrastructure across the length
and breadth of this nation. We implemented a responsible and
transparent fiscal plan for the challenging economic times that saw
us doing more even with lesser oil revenues. Grand scale corruption
perpetrated at the highest level of government is now a thing of
the past, just as the Treasury Single Account (TSA) has made it
more difficult for ministries, departments and agencies to exercise
the unrestrained liberties that helped foster a climate conducive
to corruption. The nation’s wealth is now being invested in capital
projects to expand infrastructure and connect people, goods and
opportunities by rail, road and air. Also, the Federal Government
supported state governments with bailouts that enabled them to pay
workers on their payroll. We took an unprecedented step towards
creating a fairer and more equitable society by implementing
Africa’s biggest social investment programme. Through the National
Social Investment Programme, we are providing direct support to
over 13 million Nigerians who need it by giving relief and
assistance to unemployed youth, our children, the weak and
vulnerable as well as small and medium businesses. But even as we
lay the foundation for a stable and prosperous nation, we
acknowledge there is still much to do. The Next Levelof effort
focuses on job creation across various sectors. From an enlargement
of the N-Power programme to investing in technology and creative
sector jobs to agriculture and revolutionising access to credit for
entrepreneurs and artisans, there is scope for over 15 million new
jobs. The march away from a mono-economy must continue with our
industrialisation plan coming to fore. With specific plans underway
to exploit the comparative advantage of the geopolitical zones and
different states by developing 6 Industrial Parks and 109 Special
Production and Processing Centres (SPPCs) across each senatorial
district, our incremental move away from oil dependence is assured.
In addition, our development of the Special Economic Zones will
quickly concretise our Made in Nigeria for Export (MINE) plan. To
sustain food production and value addition, our mechanisation
policy for agriculture will make tractors and processors easily
accessible and available for farmers across Nigeria. We will
continue a wide scale training policy, prioritising technology to
reach the demography of young people within the productive sector
on a massive scale even as we create jobs and growth within our
economy. We believe that our people who are still in poverty have a
direct way out and up through our expanded National Social
Investment Programme. We believe we can implement the painstaking
and comprehensive policy and work we have done to bring an end to
the perennial conflict between farmers and herders – a conflict
which is heightened by a struggle for land, water and pasture and
the effects of climate change and every now and then, opportunistic
and cynical manipulation by political actors. We are implementing a
blend of measures that ensures that justice, order, modernisation
and new economic paradigms emerge. Perhaps our biggest ambition yet
is the overhaul of our education sector. Every child counts – and
simply, whatever it takes to prepare our teachers, curriculum and
classrooms to attain the right educational goals that grow our
country, will be done. We will remodel 10,000 schools every year
and retrain our teachers to impart science, technology,
engineering, art and mathematics using coding, animation, robotics
to re-interpret our curriculum. We know that to succeed, moral
integrity and conscience must continue to form the dominant
character of our nation and its leadership. Corruption is an
existential threat to Nigeria. Despite the gains we have made in
closing the gates, we know that there is still much ground to cover
to stop systemic corruption. We are committed to deepening the work
we started this first term such that the nation’s assets and
resources continue to be organised and utilised to do good for the
common man. The next four years will be quite significant for our
country. Nigeria is faced with a choice to keep building a new
Nigeria- making a break from its tainted past which favoured an
opportunistic few. Our choices will shape us – our economic
security and our future prosperity. Nigeria, more than ever before,
needs a stable and people-focused government to move the agenda for
our country forward. Join us on this journey to the Next Level of a
prosperous, strong and stable Nigeria! Nigerians, we are all going
higher!

Read more at:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/11/apcs-roadmap-ahead-of-the-2019-elections-the-next-level-by-buhari/