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Ruling APC Candidate, Tinubu Will Run Nigeria On Same Template Buhari Used – Minister, Keyamo

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The minister said on Friday that being proud of the APC administration in the country, both leaders (Buhari and Tinubu) were on the “same APC template.”
 

 

The Minister of state for labour and employment, Festus Keyamo, has stated that it is the same template used by President Muhammadu Buhari that the All Progressives Congress’ presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, will deploy if he gets into office.
The minister said on Friday that being proud of the APC administration in the country, both leaders (Buhari and Tinubu) were on the “same APC template.”
Tinubu’s associate and former APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, had on Thursday sought to extricate Tinubu from the failure of the Buhari regime, claiming the former Lagos State governor had not been part of the government.
But Keyamo, a serving minister, said in an interview on Channels TV, that Oshiomhole was misinterpreted by the media.
“It is the same APC template that both leaders (Buhari and Tinubu); that they will use. I saw one misleading headline from one of the papers yesterday and I laughed. It was misleading, misinterpreting what one of our leaders said. That we were distancing ourselves from the records of Buhari; that is utter nonsense. Like I said, we are proud of the record of the APC,” Keyamo said.
The minister emphasised that Tinubu was proud of the achievements of the Buhari regime. He said Tinubu may however choose to improve on certain aspects of governance “on the same template of progressivism.”
Meanwhile, Nigeria has retrogressed on several indexes of national development in over seven years of the Buhari regime with worsening insecurity and the economy in comatose.
Public universities have been shut for about six months as lecturers continue agitation over poor condition of service.
In 2018, Nigeria displaced India to become the world’s poverty capital, according to a report by Brookings Institution, while Nigeria’s total public debt hit N41.60 trillion under the watch of the Buhari-led regime, according to the Debt Management Office.
SaharaReporters had earlier reported that while earlier speaking on insecurity under Buhari government, Keyamo had said only in heaven would security breaches be absent.
“It is a security breach, will it happen again? Will government respond appropriately? They will respond. There are security breaches all over the world regrettably but that is not a yardstick to say that government has failed. There are jailbreaks in America; the most secure place in the world; there are the jailbreaks. In the Western world; there are jailbreaks; unfortunately I am not proud of it,” he had said.

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