•Report by Mudasir Opeyemi
The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ado Doguwa, on Tuesday said Nigerians will get another President Muhammadu Buhari from the presidency of the All Progressive Congress candidate, Bola Tinubu. He also said that eight years of Buhari as a leader of the country is not enough for APC to clear all the mess of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
He equated the presidential candidate of the APC to President Buhari in terms of good governance and commitment to the country.
Doguwa made these assertions while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today, arguing that Buhari’s scorecard on security and education was constrained by the constitutionally provided eight-year limit.
Recall that APC commenced its presidential campaign in the North-West Geopolitical zone on Tuesday with a rally at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna.
Doguwa said the people of the North-West are “indebted” to the country with Muhammadu Buhari, who hails from the zone, as president.
He said the North-West people will “pay back” by supporting Bola Tinubu, APC presidential candidate, who hails from the Southern part of the country.
“The fact is that Muhammadu Buhari cannot be expected to have done everything at the same time. Four, Eight years’ tenure of office cannot be enough to put back the messes and the problems we have encountered under the PDP misrule.
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“We need much more than four, eight years to finish all those things. And the fact here remains that you now have another Buhari. You now have master strategists. You now have a master planner.”
“If you’re talking about the level of our education whether at universal basic level or at secondary school level, even at the tertiary level, we have had a very significant improvement in that area,”he said.
He described Tinubu as somebody who can think ahead of time with international connections and an exemplary governor of Lagos State.
“The belief is that the APC, now to be taken over by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will definitely consolidate and build on the gains already made by President Muhammadu Buhari. It is a gradual process. Muhammadu Buhari has done his bit,” he said.
Speaking on security in the country, Doguwa said the situation had “improved significantly” under Buhari.
He added that when it comes to the North-West, some of the factors to consider are the region’s population, level of literacy, and “our complexity.”
“But I want to assure you that we have raised the literacy rate to a very impressive level to the extent that through Universal Basic Education of places like my state, Kano State, where you have a governor who has declared primary and secondary school education compulsory and free.
“We have gone far in trying to really ameliorate the problem of school dropout or non-school children and I believe some other states like Kaduna and Katsina, where you have the digital governor, Nasir El-Rufai, have also peaked,” he said.