CORONATION OF THE PRESIDENT...
Iwish to express my sincere affirmed my nomination. I thank you gratitude to the Chairman and for your support. I thank you for your members of the Convention guidance. I thank you for staying Committee for planning and committed to the CHANGE agenda. conducting this convention. I accept this honour as a tribute The same appreciation goes and mark of confidence to carry the to the chairmen of National responsibility as we all join hands to and State Executive Committees of continue the good work of the APC our party. Thank you very much for government to 2023 and beyond. doing a difficult job well. We are very proud of our record
I would like to pay tribute to Chief from 2015 to date: Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande We have arrested and checked the the first chairman of our great Party slide to anarchy on the security and and to Chief John Oyegun who led economic fronts. the party until this year and all the Boko Haram is reduced to dastardly APC Governors. attacks on soft targets. Normalcy has
The result of the presidential returned to much of North East and primaries of the All Progressives neighbouring North West states. Congress this time is different because Our currency has stabilised. Our I am the only candidate. I thank all reserves are now $44 billion, a lot other eligible candidates who deferred higher than we had in 2015. to me in the interest of our party unity Power generation capacity has reached and over-all national stability. 8,000 megawatts against less than 4,600
Fellow party members, it is with when we came into office. As we invest a deep sense of humility that I in new power generation infrastructure stand before you today to accept we are strenuously working to address the nomination of our party, the the legacy deficiencies and challenges of All Progressives Congress to be its transmission and distribution networks candidate and flag-bearer in the 2019 across the country. presidential elections. We are executing Independent Power
As I stand today before you, there is Projects in 9 Federal Universities to no honour greater than the confidence deliver uninterrupted power supply given to me by all of you when you and we intend to expand to a total of
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We have revived most of our capacity to producefertilisers locally.
The Government through its Anchor Borrowers Programme and other incentives has empowered more than 2 million farmers to go back to the land. We now produce 80% of our rice requirements. Many farmers who nearly lost hope are now millionaires.
We have introduced primary school feeding programmes to encourage attendance and enrolment. We also have introduced the conditional cash transfer to help small and medium businesses, the men, the women and young people who drive our economy.
We have repaired and are repairing major arterial roads and starting major railway projects with the aim of linking the 36 states with efficient road and rail transportation systems.
We are attacking corruption headon. With international support we are recovering Nigerian stolen assets and applying them to infrastructural developments.
Today the corrupt are facing the wrath of law and leakages have been generally blocked.
Mr. Chairman, Your Excellencies, Members of the APC.
We can be proud of our achievements. CHANGE has come. Ladies and Gentlemen, fellow Nigerians, think how much PDP Governments earned between 1999 to 2015. Think what they did with it.
of Nigeria under control of a hostile army of insurgents,
What did they do with your money?
Internationally, Nigeria is now respected. My inter-action with foreign heads of state and government has been very encouraging. The international community is very supportive of our efforts to put our country in order.
Ladies and gentlemen, Members of APC. I thank you deeply for your support and confidence in me. I will not let you or the people of Nigeria down. Thank you and God bless you all.