Buhari will end Boko Haram- Osinbajo

The Vice Presidential candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 presidential elections, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has promised that General Muhammadu Buhari will oversee the defeat of Boko Haram, should he win next year’s election.



Osibajo stated this while answering questions on Twitter during a specially-arranged question-and-answer session on Monday.




The running mate to General Buhari said that Buhari would end the corrupt management of defence funds, which is responsible for the ill-equipment of the military.



“The current administration has politicised boko haram. The corruption around the defence funds has created a situation where soldiers are not well equipped/motivated,” he said



“GMB wiped out Maitatsine, another Islamic insurgency in his own administration, by sincerely identifying the problem as a challenge to the authority of the state to maintain law and order.



“The administration took command and funded the military transparently and that is what we need to do to end insurgency.”



He also spoke on APC’s strategy for reducing the bite of unemployment on youths, acknowledging that 80 per cent of fresh graduates are unemployed.



“The focus of APC is on jobs jobs jobs! The question we ask about every policy is: how many jobs will this produce. We have three broad approaches. “We expect every state will be supported to create 20,000 jobs directly funded. The FG will also match the creation for every additional job created over the 20,000 mark. “Post Youth service: FG will pay a stipend to every ‘youth corper’ for a year while they are looking for employment and in that year wed will give vocational training.



“FG will undertake a massive public works programme. This is expected to have the multiplier effect of producing hundreds of thousands of jobs.



FG will give tax breaks and recognition to employers of labour who provide a certain minimum number of jobs.”



Osinbajo dismissed claims that his party and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were no different in ideology.



“The APC in an ideological sense is left of centre. In other words, its focus is on policies that will impact the lives of the common man,” he said.



“We have social programmes such as social welfare (first in Africa), free education, mass employment, universal healthcare insurance and free meals programme in primary schools.



The difference is in the ticket; integrity is key.”

Source: Daily Times