President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said that the ongoing anti-corruption campaign would secure the future of the youth while assuring Nigerians that they would feel the desired change soon.
“Change” was the 2015 campaign slogan of Buhari, which proved potent in shoving off former President Goodluck Jonathan from power.
In an address to members of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) who marched to the presidential villa to pledge their full support for his anti-corruption campaign, Buhari promised that he would do his best to place Nigeria well on the way to becoming the nation of their dreams.
“Everything you have asked for are the things that will make for a good country, and what we are after is a good country, a country where our youths can have a future and a hope,” he said through Femi Adesina, his spokesman.
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“We are totally committed to building a country where our youths can realise their full potential. You can be assured that your welfare and well-being are topmost in our minds and very soon you will see the things we have promised come to fruition.
“During the campaigns, change was our slogan, but today it is no longer a mere slogan, it is now a reality and we will see it in every facet of our lives. The youths will feel it, the adults will feel it and old people will feel it and we will get the country of our dreams.”
According to a statement by the president’s media office, Adesina later received a document addressed to Buhari from the NANS president, Tijani Usman Shehu, promising that the president would look into their requests.
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In his remarks, Shehu said the students were united against corruption, cyber crime, prostitution, human trafficking, drug abuse and other anti-social vices.
“Nigerian students demand that our future must be secured and we strongly believe in the president’s zero tolerance for corruption,’’ he said.
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