Watch APC Manifesto: “Nigerians Can’t Remove a Performing President” – Dele Alake Defends Tinubu.

She said, no, I should put QDCs on top of social services. So I said, well, that's not my own memory. However, if you want to carry the masses along in this country, sometimes you have to bend the environment and the nuances of the country. My professional colleagues, the journalists, media men here, actually disinclined me specifically for this work because we are unveiling a manifesto of all progressive Congress. The very significance of this event is that every political party must articulate its program to support its aspirations, objectives, and reasons to attack white supremacy. And because we are doing this today to underscore the fact, and I repeat, to underscore the fact that the APC is the most solid party in Nigeria. It is the most purposive and purposeful party and above all, it is the most organized in this country today. I have recently, if you recall, in the last three and a half years, the party has been thriving very strenuously to embark on reforms. Reforms that are very unprecedented in the annals of Nigeria. I stand to be controversial and challenge anybody to a public debate on this. Since 2016. And I'm a chronicler of history in a hall, since 1960 till date, or let me say till 2023, no civilian has ever embarked on a massive comprehensive policy structure before, spanning all aspects of society, across all sectors, and touching every end of society, Nigerian society, like the Tinubu government. I think they're then point out to me, and I can lead you to public debate. And I say this with a sense of conviction, not because I'm a part of that government, but not because I'm a member of the public government. I'm a participant of some because I'm participating in the government. But as a journalist, I'm also an observer. So I'm a participant of some. I can remove myself from emotional involvement and look at issues objectively, And I say without equivocation, I don't mean to bore people with all the statistics and data. You are all enlightened people. and I know that you're all objective. The President came into office because of the world's very critical attitude and courage to confront the cataclysmic, hyper-economic problems of this country like no other. These are not mere rent-tricks. These are facts that are stated. And again, no other leader of this country has looked at the structural problems, structural economic problems of this country, and decided to take a move to confront those problems. That's what it takes man, ordinary politicians will think of the next election and avoid contentious policies that proudly could lair their political aspirations but not test them Because he puts the nation ahead of self. He does not think, oh, these policies might have a base just to challenge it or bring someone into poverty. So, he affects the nation before his own. That's why he was able to look at those problems, straight in the face and confront them. Removed foreign subsidies, as you all know. Foreign subsidies are one of the killers of Nigeria before 2012. I think World Subsidies too, on and sundry, superficially would look a little simpler. But it is not because the Kabbalah that drew down the progress of Nigeria were involved with World Subsidies. They catered the way of the money through smuggling, through banning voicing, through so many other kinds. And the cabal will fight back and they are fighting back. It only takes a man of courage, a man of grit, grace and love. to withstand the pressure about fighting the employee, the movement as well. Same thing goes for the foreign exchange situation which we had. We had multiple foreign exchange dynamics and operations. And some people there, you all know this, would sit in their cabins, in their backyards, without lifting a finger, simply because they had connections, the CBN authorities or top government officials, and on the phone call, You can let go. Billions are being officialized and without giving their city a gap, they start to degrowth. In a twinkle of an eye, they become billionaires. Citymen making the same old production into their economy will shut off the night. And of course, the result will be horrible. The people they're going to affect. Three years ago, some group of billionaire businessmen approached from a particular section of the country. The section of the country that is assumed to be anti-president They approached me and told me that they wanted to come as a group to see the President and publicly acknowledge and commend his efforts in revamping the economy and to tell him that there are great aims, tremendous aims, for the policies of the United Nations. And mind you, there is a banker that is told, a banker that is told, who did say a few days ago that all of the policies of this government are just enriching or making the rich richer and the poor poorer. But the flip side of it is that when the rich, the poor is the diplomat. Because it is the rich that creates employment, generates employment for the poor. So if the policies impoverish the rich, the poor is underground. And that is not the full truth, not the full picture. When you look at the macroeconomic stability that the president has put in place that both local and foreign organizations, rating agencies all over the world are commending as they step in or steps in the right direction. There is also the complicated microeconomic level that are staring us in the face. And we can go on and mention examples. The most prominent is the nails of students now have news. On top of that, they now have 20,000 Naira every month as welfare. Now, if that is not micro-economy, then you turn to the definition of micro-economy. If you are not a parent, or a guardian, or a sponsor of a student in a tertiary institution, you're not going to fulfill it. So go and ask parents. Go and ask those who sponsor students in tertiary institutions. They know the welfare allowances. have reduced their pay. That is a direct microeconomy and is a medium that one can grow. So the essence of this manifesto is to further consolidate on the reforms and expand the scope and the horizon of the microeconomic benefit to make Nigeria's in terms of safer environment, healthcare, agriculture, farming, industrialization, manufacturing. Even the sector where I am, where I serve currently, is selling mirrors. I was telling someone outside there that before the advent of this Bola Vete Numbu, many Nigerians never knew that we had solid windows. Many. And those who knew never heard of this judicious exploitation for all the benefits. For COVID-19 2023, the Bola Vete Numbu magic has revived the solid. Love you too, love you all. Peace. Diversification agenda anchored for many years and today Nigeria is on the map of solidity. In fact, when I go abroad for conferences and marketing with other players of Nigeria, I also get asked, oh is it the BGNU that recreated the ministry of solidity? I said look, it's always been there, but it was comatose. But the BGNU came and breathed life It was very auspicious, but I didn't know what to do. and breathe the life into it through the area of creative and innovative technologies. I'll give you an example: when I received their document, the total revenue that sector generated was six billion. It is not a fluke, it is not a coincidence, it is not an accident. These are products of meticulous exhaustive policy articulation, conceptualization, education, and monitoring are the very crucial materials. So, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure the panelists here today examined the various pillars of this manifesto and propagated the consolidation of the reforms, and especially and most significantly, the translation of these reforms into microeconomic gains. And then, if you do this work, you don't change. The BGNU government is a winning course. We cannot afford to keep and the president's words: we have crossed the Red Sea. By 2031, all these reforms would have fully generated manpower. And Nigerians would become so used to good governance and economic progress, they would never allow them to pass the 13th Amendment. Thank you very much.