FG Insists Buhari Has Made Nigeria Better Than He Met It In 2015

The Federal Government claims that Nigeria has greatly improved since President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress took over from the People’s Democratic Party in 2015.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this declaration about the government of Buhari on Monday during a live interview on the NTA program “Good Morning Nigeria.”

The minister asserted that the Buhari government has upheld the expectations of the people and carried out its mandate given the timeframe and circumstances.

The minister asserted that efforts to de-market the government and, by implication, the entire country were being driven by a vocal minority and fanatical detractors.

The minister stated that in 2015 the entire North East region was inaccessible and that Boko Haram extremists controlled 20 of Borno’s 27 Local Government Areas.

According to him, no area in Nigeria is now occupied by or ruled by insurgents.

The minister recalled that despite being the leading importer of rice from Thailand in 2015, Nigeria is now self-sufficient in both the staple food and other goods in general due to the administration’s agriculture policies and programs.

He claimed that the Anchor Borrowers Program had increased the power of millions of farmers and that there were now 60 rice mills in the nation, up from two in 2015.

In addition to providing daily meals for 10 million kids, the minister claimed that two million households got Conditional Cash Transfer payments as part of the administration’s social intervention programs.

Mohammed claimed that nationwide, the government had constructed 17,000 km of brand-new highways and refurbished 8,000 km of existing ones.

The minister added, “We completed the Lagos-Ibadan expressway as well as the second Niger bridge, which was a mirage for more than three decades.

“Also for more than three decades, Nigerians did not know what it means to travel by train until the Buhari government came to power.

“Despite all the sabotage, today we have worked, the Lagos-Ibadan railway, Abuja-Kaduna railway, and Ajaokuta- Warri railway which were not in existence before we came.”