The candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has promised to ‘recharge’ Lake Chad if elected president in the 2023 general elections.
Tinubu, who made this promise on Tuesday at the flag off of
the Kolmani Integrated Development Project in Bauchi State, said the project
has created new opportunities for the country.
He said beyond Lake Chad, he will also ensure the
construction of the Mambilla Hydro project to boost power supply in the
country.
While praising President Muhammadu Buhari for remaining
focused, he pledged to continue from where the president stops in 2023.
He said: “Mr President you kept faith, you stayed focused.
Say what enemies may, you remain who you are. During the primaries, you said it
has to be free and fair, a level playing field for everybody not caring where
we face, north, east or west.
“That election and congress produced me. I never thought that
I would have the opportunity to even stand before you today for a discovery of
great magnitude, an impactful discovery that will strengthen the dynamics of
our country and make you a blessed inheritor of good history. You will be.
“Congratulations for staying focused and for encouraging many
of us. Your various regrets each time we discuss the lack of food and the
challenges of terrorism, we talk about Lake Chad.
“Let me assure you that if I am elected president, I will
recharge Lake Chad. You often talk about Mambilla and electricity. What a
problem we have! Even though we are not within the parameters of arithmetic,
you know a circle is a circle and once drawn, you have to break it in different
ways”.
The APC flag-bearer who likened the president to great
leaders across the world said: “Do not worry sir, whatever they say in the
social media and television comments and write-ups, let me say that history
will be very kind to you because you are in the class of great retired generals
who came back to rescue their Countries. In the likes of Charles De Gaulle of
France, Eisenhower of America, Winston Churchill of Great Britain and Buhari of
Nigeria.
“No one foreign flag is flying over our country any longer.
We may be hungry, but we can manage our hunger. We don’t want to kill each
other. Today, you gave us a path to prosperity, a path to success. The only
thing I may want to exclude and argue is the West and Europe.
“They have used our own resources and fossil fuels to develop
their economy and they have asked us to be cautious. But I like your answer, we
cannot stay hungry and starve to death. We need to take care of ourselves
unless they pay compensation for it”, he added.
Asiwaju’s remarks came a few minutes after the Bauchi State
Governor, Sen. Bala Mohammed, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member, declared
Bauchi as ‘Buharists”.
He had commended the President for seeing through the
discovery of oil in the Kolmani Field located at the boundary between Bauchi
and Gombe States.
The governor’s comments however did not go unnoticed, as the
Senate President Ahmad Lawan and the Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong
urged him to move over to the APC to ensure that Buhari’s legacy was sustained.
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