Buhari and APC will ease your pains - APC Chairman

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has assured that President Muhammadu Buhari and the party would do everything humanly possible to ensure the tough time Nigerians are going through at the moment does not last.

In his message to mark Democracy Day, Odigie- Oyegun said the 2016 budget has been fashioned in a way to address the basic needs of ordinary Nigerians.


He added that the N500 billion dedicated to social intervention will have positive impact very soon.

Buhari, he stated, was fully aware of the tough economic challenges facing Nigerians and has directed his focus on the salvaging the battered economy.

Oyegun said: “On behalf of the National Working Committee, Elders, Leaders and the teeming members of our Party, I wish to convey my immeasurable gratitude to our fellow compatriots for their unprecedented confidence and trust in President Muhammadu Buhari and the party.

“The APC assures all Nigerians that the party and the President hold as very sacred this collective trust, which the President has so creditably discharged this past one year.

“President Buhari has, in the last year, worked hard to repair Nigeria’s previously tarnished image in the international community; restored the territorial integrity of our country by ensuring the containment of the erstwhile rampaging Boko Haram insurgency and has waged an unrelenting and vigorous war against corruption as he promised in his electioneering campaign.”

He added: “The President, being fully aware of the tough economic challenges facing Nigerians, has directed his focus on the salvaging of our battered and prostrate economy.

“The very parlous state of the economy inherited by this administration, which has been further battered by the collapse of the price of crude oil and the massive corruption by the past administration, does not need any further restating.

“However, the government has courageously faced these challenges by taking tough decisions necessary to bring our economy back to buoyancy and self-sustaining growth.

“One of such tough but inevitable decisions is the liberalisation of the petroleum downstream sector and the consequent hike in petrol price which led to a call out of workers on an indefinite strike by Organised Labour.

“We thank Nigerians for their understanding of the situation and also Organised Labour for resuming negotiation with government.”

He appealed to Nigerians to join hands with the current administration to design a new economy “that assures self-sustaining growth and shared prosperity for our people.”