NOW WE CAN CONFIDENTLY FACE THE FUTURE

Fellow Nigerians, it has been a tumultuous period for us all but we thank God for seeing us throughWhen we took over governance of this country a few years back the nation was in a state of monumental disarray. Poverty reigned supreme and corruption was our second nature. All public offices and departments were non-functional and our people did not have access to the basic necessities of life e.g. portable water, good roads, good education and good health care, despite the billions of dollars purportedly spent on those areas by successive governments. Ethnic militia groups reigned supreme and our police became a weapon of the state against the masses.
The Int’l World began to introduce all forms of restrictions on our country and her citizenry, the Great Britain refused our youth entry visa into her borders, the United States aerospace agency banned all flights taking off from our airports from landing anywhere near her airports, they subjected our travelers to all forms of painful experiences because of our notoriety as great drug traffickers and advance fee fraudsters.Some of our Governors and other top officials were detained overseas for different nefarious offences which they couldn’t disapprove.
The nation was in a total state of disrepair and was nearly collapsing.However, on assumption of office we identified that our major problem was that of VISION-not Visions like Vision 2010-which was just a national rip-off but real VISION, really seeing where we want to get to and reaching for that destination.For us, our VISION was a better Nigeria-the Nigeria of our dreams, the Nigeria of the dreams of our freedom fighters long gone.The tasks were set, and work commenced, though Herculean and monumental, we craved and got your supports.Today we are all living witnesses to the transformation that our great nation has undergone.We set about a true national rebirth, we decidedly determined to renovate the public service and return trust to governmental institutions, we did not only pay lip service to DUE PROCESS, but implemented it at every level of government and through partnerships with organized labor and the organized private sector, we ensured that the policy was fully and totally entrenched in our daily lives.
Fellow Nigerians, I am proud to say that with our commitment to excellence and your support, we have finally arrived at the Promised Land - that has remained promised until now. Today we have an educational system that is the envy of other countries of the world-Our Minister of Education and that of the European Union recently signed an agreement to train European scholars interested in the African cultural practices at several of Universities.Our scholars were recognized by several Int’l groups and institutions-as 5 of our Professors are Nobel Prize nominees -we pray they eventually win. This is a testimony of our restructured educational system which provides a balance between academic & professional training.Our health sector has also recorded a laudable boost as ailments that had previously been untreatable locally can now be catered for within the confines of our borders-our expertly trained specialists who left the shores of this nation during the dark days have returned and are helping with the evolution of the New Nigeria.Our people and public infrastructure has once again returned to their place of glory, the economy can now favourably compete with that of some developed nations and the fact that the exchange rate of the Naira to the dollar is now N5 to $1 and with the successful execution of the final phase of theeconomic plans of this administration, the rate will be close to N0.50k to $1We have left the bottom of the ladder as the most corrupt nation in the world and we are now the 2nd most uncorrupt nation in the world.
Fellow Nigerians, we are where we hope to be and we got here by collective efforts.Now to retain and even improve our collective standing, requires collective efforts-please don’t go to sleep just yet.With this New Nigeria, we can confidently face the future and answer truthfully the many questions I am sure our unborn children will askThank You!
…and suddenly I woke up.It was only a dream.