Buhari vows to wipe indiscipline, corruption out of Nigeria

Nigerian Tribune

6 March 2011

Buhari vows to wipe indiscipline, corruption out of Nigeria
•Proposes true federalism, restoration of popular rule

FORMER Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressives Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari, said his focus would be wiping indiscipline and corruption out of the Nigerian system if elected president in the April polls.

Buhari, who spoke in Port Harcourt at a presidential campaign rally Saturday, observed that the last 12 years of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) rule had taken Nigeria deeper into corruption and misrule.

Buhari, who was accompanied by bigwigs of his party, including his running mate, Pastor Tunde Bakare, said his party would focus on education, security, infrastructural development and good governance.

He said his administration would pay attention to all the sectors of the economy, especially education which standard continues to drop due to bad governance.

Harping on the need to give more attention to the security sector, Buhari said: “We want to go to bed with our two eyes shut. We want to stop indiscipline and corruption. We want to resuscitate power to run industries. We want to resuscitate the transportation sector. We want to turn around the country which has lost a lot during the 12 years of PDP rule.

”Everybody is struggling to be in a place of power so as to put the treasury in his pocket but we promise to build educational infrastructure so as to allow ordinary people to pursue their means of taking care of their families,” Buhari said.

Speaking earlier, Buhari’s running mate, Bakare, said neither President Goodluck Jonathan nor his party, the PDP, had any plan to take Nigeria out of its current predicament.

He said the CPC had already outlined its plans to restore Nigeria to true federalism, adding that it planned to use dialogue and engagement to restore power to ordinary Nigerians.

“Our desire was to help Jonathan Goodluck. We went to see him thrice and he told us that he doesn’t know what to do about the nation. We will reverse the years the locust has eaten.

“The only party that will restore true federalism in Nigeria is the CPC. We will restore the spirit of true federalism with the constitution. There will be devolution of power in CPC. We are bound by what we have promised. The PDP has taken power to itself. We are going to restore power to the people of Nigeria.”