No President In Nigeria’s History Has Helped The Poor Like Buhari – Keyamo

The Director Media, Buhari Campaign Organisation, Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN), says no President, since 1999, has touched the lives of poor and vulnerable Nigerians like President Muhammadu Buhari.

Keyamo made this known on Thursday in Ilorin at the inauguration of Buhari/Osinbajo Project 2019.

Delivering a lecture at the occasion, the senior advocate of Nigeria also claimed that the Buhari administration has recovered stolen money that belonged to Nigerians than any other government.

He said what Buhari has done was to take the bullet from the rich to protect the poor.

Keyamo described the 16 years of the Peoples Democratic Party as worst system of government, based on sharing formula of the nation’s treasury.

“They operated a system that ignored physical infrastructure in the country, that ignored the plight of the poor, the weak and the vulnerable in Nigeria,” he said.

“If you compare what accrued to the country in 16 years and what were done with the money earned in three years and infrastructure built by Buhari, you will see the difference.

“In 16 years, all they did in the South East was Onisha-Owerri road, whereas in three years, President Buhari is doing four major road construction in the region.

“You have a president who has fought for you, why can’t 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 in 2019.

“I can tell that there is no government in the history of this country since 1960 that has addressed the plights the poor, the vulnerable in the last three years than this government,” he said.

He listed the administration’s intervention programmes for the poor and vulnerable which included the N5, 000 monthly stipends, feeding of over eight million school pupils and soft loans of between N250, 000 and N350, 000 to small business owners.

According to him, before Buhari came on board in 2015, over 24 state governments were unable to pay salaries of their workers.

He said the administration approved bailout funds to the states to clear the arrears and address their critical challenges.

“These social intervention programmes show that Buhari’s government is touching the lives of the poor than the rich.

“We should not go back to that era of nonpayment of salary and suffering of the masses,” Keyamo added.