1. The
cardinal agenda of the APC government and over-arching themes will be SECURITY,
CORRUPTION and UN-EMPLOYMENT; APC believes that corruption has a very strong
negative link to both security and unemployment.
2. There
will be no 'real action' until around October 2015, partly because the 2015
budget is GEJ’s and may be fully approved in April 2015; the new APC government
will seek to align the electoral and fiscal calendars to avoid this type of
problem in future.
3. A
corrupt-free cabinet will be announced very quickly, within one week of
inauguration on 29/5/15; anyone with a whiff of corruption or other tainting or
pending corrupt charges will NOT be appointed into APC's cabinet; GMB’s body
language will reflect ZERO tolerance for corruption. STEALING WILL BE DEEMED AS
CORRUPTION.
4. APC
is not a conclave of cardinals or saints or angels but includes the good, the
bad and the ugly; in Nigeria, the bad and the ugly can be the biggest electoral
assets but GMB’s government will not interfere with law enforcement agencies or
the judiciary even if APC members are involved.
5. The
VP elect, did a lot of work as commissioner of justice in LASG and will bring
this to a major revamp of the judiciary to complement anti-corruption drive and
the rule of law; he will also anchor the economic committee.
6. The
new APC government will continue with some of the programs in the GEJ
administration, which were successful, for example Agriculture, but there will
be a stronger collaboration between FGN and the states.
7. A
very LEAN government is the main focus for APC/GMB; this will involve resolving
overlapping and redundant MDAs; largely in line with the Steve Oronsaye
presidential committee report; this report was available to GEJ’s government
but the will to implement it was absent.
8. Rather
than strengthen key anti-corruption agencies like EFCC, ICPC and SFI, these are
likely to be consolidated and a single entity will be made more effective and
empowered to BARK & BITE HARD unlike the present comatose agencies.
9. APC
believes that CBN is getting over-burdened by developmental finance issues, at
the expense of its core objectives; this will be changed and improved.
10. Subsidy on
petroleum products will certainly be removed and the industry will be reformed
as a matter of priority in order to attract new investments.
11. While
power reform has been commendable, and will continue, the approach will change.
Transmission will be deregulated, regionalized and privatized in order to break
down centralized transmission; issues of gas supply to Gencos will be addressed
but the new APC government believes that DISCOs are the biggest bottlenecks
presently; the APC government plans to add-on 4,000 MW of power every year and
expect that output will be a minimum of 12,000 MW at the end of term of this
4-year mandate.
12. APC's
think-tank detailed work indicate that N3 trillion in savings can come out of
plugged leakages; we believe that the employment drive will be private sector
led. The government will allow market forces to prevail, including foreign
exchange; GMB will NOT use fiat to fix the exchange rate; however the
government will keenly seek to protect the more economically vulnerable
segments of the society.
13. There will
be tightening of the tax loopholes but NO tax rate hikes or increase. FIRS will
be strengthened and the Lagos state IGR template will be adopted at the
national level.
14. While the
infrastructure gap requires huge capital outlay which the government does not
have, a master-plan will be developed; a situation where the recurrent budget
is almost 80% and capital budget only 20% is not acceptable.
15. Nigerians
are advised to familiarize themselves with the contents of APC manifesto and
APC code of ethics which are available ONLINE and also, the Steve Oronsaye
report.
Thank you Nigerians for your
mandate, support and cooperation. Together, we will make this county, Nigeria,
great again.
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