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2019 Presidential Elections: I have fulfilled my promise – Buhari

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said he fulfilled the promise he made to Nigerians that his electioneering campaigns would not negatively affect governance.

The President had on the eve of the 2019 Presidential campaigns, declared that “governance would not take the back seat in spite of his busy campaign schedules to all the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory”

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in a statement on Thursday listed 10 major landmark achievements made by the government despite the busy engagements of the President who had to tour all the 36 states and the FCT during the electioneering campaigns, starting from January to March, 2019.

President Buhari had during the period, inaugurated the Presidential Technical Advisory Committee on the Implementation of the National Minimum Wage (PTAC), with a mandate to advise the Federal Government on how best to fund, in a sustained manner, the additional costs of implementing the imminent increase in the National Minimum Wage.
The Committee, chaired by Mr. Bismarck Rewane, submitted its report on Monday, March 25, 2019.Also in January 2019, President Buhari submitted a National Minimum Wage Amendment Bill to the National Assembly for passage, following the approval of the National Council of State. The Bill is now awaiting presidential assent.

Presidency listed the Strategic Revenue Growth Initiatives (SRGI) programme of launched by Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, in Abuja, in January as part of the achievements
The initiative is aimed at achieving sustainability in revenue generation, Identifying new and enhance the enforcement of existing revenue streams, as well as achieving cohesion in the revenue ecosystem (people and tools).

The President also signed Executive Order 007 of 2019, as an instrument for Road Infrastructure Development and Refurbishment Investment Tax Credit Scheme.The scheme will enable companies that are willing and able to spend their own funds on constructing roads to their factories or farms, will recover their construction costs by paying reduced taxes, over a period of time.Under the first phase, 19 road Projects are to be undertaken by 6 leading manufacturing and construction firms, in 11 States, and in each of Nigeria’s six geo-political zones,

Dangote Industries Limited; Lafarge Africa Plc; Unilever Nigeria Plc; Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc; Nigeria LNG Limited; and China Road and Bridge Corporation Nigeria Limited, were approved to embark on the projects

During the same period, the President also assented to the new Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act (FCCPA), Nigeria’s first unified and comprehensive Competition legislation.The new Act establishes the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), to replace the Consumer Protection Council.

President Muhammadu Buhari also on February 9th, commissioned the NSIA – LUTH advanced cancer treatment centre located in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos.The public-private partnership (PPP) project valued at $11m is between the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA and the Lagos University Teaching Hospital LUTH and is designed to offer world class cancer diagnostic services, using advanced radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment.