BISMILLAHI.... THE LORD OF RASULULLAHI (S.AW).
I am immensely grateful to God Who
Has preserved us to witness this day
and this occasion. Today marks a
triumph for Nigeria and an occasion to
celebrate her freedom and cherish her
democracy. Nigerians have shown their commitment to democracy and
are determined to entrench its culture.
Our journey has not been easy but
thanks to the determination of our
people and strong support from
friends abroad we have today a truly democratically elected government in
place.
I would like to thank President
Goodluck Jonathan for his display of
statesmanship in setting a precedent
for us that has now made our people
proud to be Nigerians wherever they
are. With the support and cooperation he has given to the transition process,
he has made it possible for us to show
the world that despite the perceived
tension in the land we can be a united
people capable of doing what is right
for our nation. Together we co- operated to surprise the world that
had come to expect only the worst
from Nigeria. I hope this act of
graciously accepting defeat by the
outgoing President will become the
standard of political conduct in the country.
I would like to thank the millions of
our supporters who believed in us
even when the cause seemed
hopeless. I salute their resolve in
waiting long hours in rain and hot
sunshine to register and cast their votes and stay all night if necessary to
protect and ensure their votes count
and were counted. I thank those who
tirelessly carried the campaign on the
social media. At the same time, I thank
our other countrymen and women who did not vote for us but
contributed to make our democratic
culture truly competitive, strong and
definitive.
I thank all of you.
Having just a few minutes ago sworn
on the Holy Book, I intend to keep my
oath and serve as President to all
Nigerians.
I belong to everybody and I belong to
nobody.
A few people have privately voiced
fears that on coming back to office I
shall go after them. These fears are
groundless. There will be no paying
off old scores. The past is prologue.
Our neighbours in the Sub-region and
our African brethren should rest
assured that Nigeria under our
administration will be ready to play
any leadership role that Africa expects
of it. Here I would like to thank the governments and people of
Cameroon, Chad and Niger for
committing their armed forces to fight
Boko Haram in Nigeria.
I also wish to assure the wider
international community of our
readiness to cooperate and help to
combat threats of cross-border
terrorism, sea piracy, refugees and
boat people, financial crime, cyber crime, climate change, the spread of
communicable diseases and other
challenges of the 21st century.
At home we face enormous
challenges. Insecurity, pervasive
corruption, the hitherto unending and
seemingly impossible fuel and power
shortages are the immediate concerns.
We are going to tackle them head on. Nigerians will not regret that they have
entrusted national responsibility to us.
We must not succumb to hopelessness
and defeatism. We can fix our
problems.
In recent times Nigerian leaders
appear to have misread our mission.
Our founding fathers, Mr Herbert
Macauley, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief
Obafemi Awolowo, Alhaji Ahmadu
Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Malam
Aminu Kano, Chief J.S. Tarka, Mr Eyo
Ita, Chief Denis Osadeby, Chief Ladoke
Akintola and their colleagues worked
to establish certain standards of
governance. They might have differed in their methods or tactics or details,
but they were united in establishing a
viable and progressive country. Some
of their successors behaved like spoilt
children breaking everything and
bringing disorder to the house.
Furthermore, we as Nigerians must
remind ourselves that we are heirs to
great civilizations: Shehu Othman Dan
fodio’s caliphate, the Kanem Borno
Empire, the Oyo Empire, the Benin
Empire and King Jaja’s formidable domain. The blood of those great
ancestors flow in our veins. What is
now required is to build on these
legacies, to modernize and uplift
Nigeria.
Daunting as the task may be it is by no
means insurmountable. There is now a
national consensus that our chosen
route to national development is
democracy. To achieve our objectives
we must consciously work the democratic system. The Federal
Executive under my watch will not
seek to encroach on the duties and
functions of the Legislative and Judicial
arms of government. The law
enforcing authorities will be charged to operate within the Constitution. We
shall rebuild and reform the public
service to become more effective and
more serviceable. We shall charge
them to apply themselves with
integrity to stabilize the system.
For their part the legislative arm must
keep to their brief of making laws,
carrying out over-sight functions and
doing so expeditiously. The judicial
system needs reform to cleanse itself
from its immediate past. The country now expects the judiciary to act with
dispatch on all cases especially on
corruption, serious financial crimes or
abuse of office. It is only when the
three arms act constitutionally that
government will be enabled to serve the country optimally and avoid the
confusion all too often bedeviling
governance today.
Elsewhere relations between Abuja
and the States have to be clarified if we
are to serve the country better.
Constitutionally there are limits to
powers of each of the three tiers of
government but that should not mean the Federal Government should fold its
arms and close its eyes to what is
going on in the states and local
governments. Not least the operations
of the Local Government Joint
Account. While the Federal Government can not interfere in the
details of its operations it will ensure
that the gross corruption at the local
level is checked. As far as the
constitution allows me I will try to
ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of
government in the country. For I will
not have kept my own trust with the
Nigerian people if I allow others abuse
theirs under my watch.
However, no matter how well
organized the governments of the
federation are they can not succeed
without the support, understanding
and cooperation of labour unions,
organized private sector, the press and civil society organizations. I
appeal to employers and workers
alike to unite in raising productivity so
that everybody will have the
opportunity to share in increased
prosperity. The Nigerian press is the most vibrant in Africa. My appeal to the
media today – and this includes the
social media – is to exercise its
considerable powers with
responsibility and patriotism.
My appeal for unity is predicated on
the seriousness of the legacy we are
getting into. With depleted foreign
reserves, falling oil prices, leakages
and debts the Nigerian economy is in
deep trouble and will require careful management to bring it round and to
tackle the immediate challenges
confronting us, namely; Boko Haram,
the Niger Delta situation, the power
shortages and unemployment
especially among young people. For the longer term we have to improve
the standards of our education. We
have to look at the whole field of
medicare. We have to upgrade our
dilapidated physical infrastructure.
The most immediate is Boko Haram’s
insurgency. Progress has been made
in recent weeks by our security forces
but victory can not be achieved by
basing the Command and Control
Centre in Abuja. The command centre will be relocated to Maiduguri and
remain until Boko Haram is completely
subdued. But we can not claim to have
defeated Boko Haram without
rescuing the Chibok girls and all other
innocent persons held hostage by insurgents.
This government will do all it can to
rescue them alive. Boko Haram is a
typical example of small fires causing
large fires. An eccentric and
unorthodox preacher with a tiny
following was given posthumous fame and following by his extra
judicial murder at the hands of the
police. Since then through official
bungling, negligence, complacency or
collusion Boko Haram became a
terrifying force taking tens of thousands of lives and capturing
several towns and villages covering
swathes of Nigerian sovereign
territory.
Boko Haram is a mindless, godless
group who are as far away from Islam
as one can think of. At the end of the
hostilities when the group is subdued
the Government intends to
commission a sociological study to determine its origins, remote and
immediate causes of the movement, its
sponsors, the international
connexions to ensure that measures
are taken to prevent a reccurrence of
this evil. For now the Armed Forces will be fully charged with prosecuting the
fight against Boko haram. We shall
overhaul the rules of engagement to
avoid human rights violations in
operations. We shall improve
operational and legal mechanisms so that disciplinary steps are taken
against proven human right violations
by the Armed Forces.
Boko Haram is not only the security
issue bedeviling our country. The
spate of kidnappings, armed
robberies, herdsmen/farmers clashes,
cattle rustlings all help to add to the
general air of insecurity in our land. We are going to erect and maintain an
efficient, disciplined people – friendly
and well – compensated security
forces within an over – all security
architecture.
The amnesty programme in the Niger
Delta is due to end in December, but
the Government intends to invest
heavily in the projects, and
programmes currently in place. I call
on the leadership and people in these areas to cooperate with the State and
Federal Government in the
rehabilitation programmes which will
be streamlined and made more
effective. As ever, I am ready to listen
to grievances of my fellow Nigerians. I extend my hand of fellowship to them
so that we can bring peace and build
prosperity for our people.
No single cause can be identified to
explain Nigerian’s poor economic
performance over the years than the
power situation. It is a national shame
that an economy of 180 million
generates only 4,000MW, and distributes even less. Continuous
tinkering with the structures of power
supply and distribution and close on $
20b expanded since 1999 have only
brought darkness, frustration, misery,
and resignation among Nigerians. We will not allow this to go on. Careful
studies are under way during this
transition to identify the quickest,
safest and most cost-effective way to
bring light and relief to Nigerians.
Unemployment, notably youth un-
employment features strongly in our
Party’s Manifesto. We intend to attack
the problem frontally through revival
of agriculture, solid minerals mining as
well as credits to small and medium size businesses to kick – start these
enterprises. We shall quickly examine
the best way to revive major industries
and accelerate the revival and
development of our railways, roads
and general infrastructure.
Your Excellencies, My fellow Nigerians
I can not recall when Nigeria enjoyed
so much goodwill abroad as now. The
messages I received from East and
West, from powerful and small
countries are indicative of international expectations on us. At
home the newly elected government is
basking in a reservoir of goodwill and
high expectations. Nigeria therefore
has a window of opportunity to fulfill
our long – standing potential of pulling ourselves together and
realizing our mission as a great nation.
Our situation somehow reminds one
of a passage in Shakespeare’s Julius
Ceasar
There is a tide in the affairs of men
which,
taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life,
Is bound in shallows and miseries.
We have an opportunity. Let us take it.
Thank you
Muhammadu Buhari
President Federal Republic of NIGERIA
and Commander in-chief-of the Armed forces
ALHAMDULILLAH
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