Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on
Tuesday in Abuja wondered how a certain Jibril from Sudan would be presiding
over the Federal Executive Council(FEC) meeting.
The misconception of Jibril, a
purported body-double of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been rife in both
conventional and social media lately.
Buhari himself had while fielding
questions in Poland, cleared the air and debunked the claims that he was
cloned.
Osinbajo expressed this shock at
a National Consultative Forum organised by the National Committee of Buhari
Support Groups (NCBSG) in collaboration with Council for New Nigeria
Initiative.
He said that the fear of Buhari
was making some detractors lose their senses.
According to the vice president,
the present government is earning 60 per cent less than the previous
government, yet it has spent N2.7 trillion on infrastructure, the highest in
the history of the country.
He said that the Buhari-led
administration had done much because it was not stealing money; was doing major
roads in 36 states–Lagos Kano railway, Warri, Aladja, Mambilla, Port Hacourt,
Maiduguri among others.
Osinbajo said that the government
was feeding over 9.2 million children every day; giving 2 million petty traders
a better deal in life with Tradermoni and had employed 500,000 graduates under
the N-Power programme.
“We are giving about 300,000 of
the poorest Nigerians N5000 a month. How? Because Buhari is the gate keeper he
has stopped grand corruption.
“So despite the fact that we are
earning 60 per cent less we are doing five times more. This is why there is a
gang up by the discredited elite against him.
“They prayed for him to die, he didn’t die.
When he came back hale and hearty by the grace of the Almighty God, they
mourned while Nigerians rejoiced.
”The fear of Buhari makes these
people desperate even crazy. So now they say he is Jibrin from Sudan. If you
can’t discredit him say he doesn’t exist; they were all alive and well when
Pastor Adeboye went to London and prayed for him the day before he returned to
Nigeria.
“How will one Jubril sit in
Federal Executive Council and conduct meetings, consult with his ministers,
speak to me daily?
“Their strategy is simple, if you
tell a lie often enough some will believe you; Buhari is not only alive and
well, he will by God’s grace live long and well after his second term in
office,” he said.
He commended the members of
National Commitee on Buhari Support Groups, saying that they were the vanguard
of the battle for the soul of Nigeria.
On his part, Sen. Ahmed Tinubu,
National Leader, All progressives Congress (APC) expressed optimism that the
part would emerge victorious in the 2019 presidential election.
Tinubu gave the support groups a
recipe for effective campaign.
He said that the opposition would
talk about herdsmen and farmers clash, adding it also occurred during the
previous government.
“But they have low way of
thinking; they have low capacity to convert tragedy to a situation of
opportunity and economic prosperity; we have the capacity in this country to do
irrigation; utilise our water resources; to create green pastures and ranches.
“We will convert that mystery;
that tragedy to opportunity to our people; we have higher institutions which
have conducted various studies on ranching; we can only change the way of life
of some people.
“The herders will have greener
pastures, okay; lets build schools; let’s build ranches and ask the animals to
be in one position and create opportunities for farmers to provide animal
feeds; even animal dung will become manure and will create a bigger economy.
“We can create slaughter labs and
abattoirs; we can hygenically transfer those feed in a cold
storage—transportation; that is equally business.
“We can easily take those animal
skins to make shoes, handbags, belts, and turn our locality to China and
export.
“We are not going to cry; feel
sorry for ourselves; relinquish our responsibility because we are thinkers and
doers; we will convert it to prosperity. Believe me and believe Buhari,” he
said.
The APC national leaders told the
groups that the opposition would ask them what the Buhari government had
achieved.
He said that their response
should be that the administration had diversified the economy; more farmers
were making money and Nigeria was no longer importing rice.
Tinubu said that the groups
should also talk about the achievements in rail transportation.
The highlight of the event was
the unveiling of a digital portal for advocacy and for showcasing the
achievements of the Buhari-led government.
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