President Muhammadu Buhari Administration set to release documentary
On May 29, 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari marked the second anniversary of the second term in office.
A press conference by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in Abuja on the Mid-term report (second term) of President Mohammudu Buhari’s administration has been released on June 1 2021.
According to the minister, “to mark this anniversary, we have decided to, once again, change our strategy.”
The current administration in Nigeria has heralded every anniversary, as well as every end of the year with massive publicity to its achievements.
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It has undertaken media tours of federal government projects covering many sectors across the country.
This year, 2021, which marks the halfway point of the second and final term of the Muhammadu Buhari Administration to suffuse the airwaves and the social media with unmistakable video evidence of the various achievements, to such an extent that even the blind can ‘see’ and the deaf can ‘hear’.
Ahead of the anniversary, it commissioned an all-encompassing and unprecedented documentary on the projects and programmes of President Buhari administration.
The documentary will air in three parts, will run for months and updated from time to time until the end of the Administration.
It covers roads, rail, housing, power, aviation, agriculture, ports, bridges, health, fight against Covid-19, water resources and the economy generally.
Projects will feature in the President Buhari documentary
- Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
- Apapa-Oworonsoki Expressway
- Enugu-Port Harcourt dualization
- Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja dualization
- Abuja-Kaduna- Zaria Expressway
- Kano-Maiduguri Expressway dualization
- Suleja-Minna highway
- Milliken Hill Ngwo & Bonny-Bodo-Road
- 2ndNigerBridge
- LokoOwetoBridge
- Zungeru Hydroelectric Dam
- Goronyo Dam
- Airport upgrades in Abuja, Lagos and Enugu
- Agriculture (rice and chicken farming, among o
- Apapa Standard Gauge Line
- Ebute Metta-Ibadan Standard Gauge Line
- Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Aladja Standard Gauge Line
- Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano Natural Gas Pipeline
- Onitsha and Lekki Deep Water Ports
- The fight against Covid-19
- Digital Switch Over in Broadcasting
- The 1,000-village Star-Times Project
- FHA Housing Projects in Ajoda New Town (Oyo State)/FHA Kwali Mass Housing Project
- NSIA-Umuahia Diagnostic Centre
- NSIA-Aminu Kano teaching Hospital
- NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre
- Acquisition and upgrade of military platforms
The administration boasts to have achieved so much with so little than have ever been recorded in the history of Nigeria.
Lai Mohammed cites the drop in the price of crude oil at the beginning of the administration came in 2015 and consequently taking down the fund available to the government.
What will the legacy of President Buhari be?
It is interesting to know that this administration is drawing legacy from building roads, rails, bridges, mass housing, port development rather than from the safety of the nation since that does non-existent.
According to Lia, “President Buhari’s legacy is assured and will be defined by his massive achievements in office.
Lai emphatically declines any effort to gain a security legacy saying that “those challenges are fleeting and will not define the legacy of President Muhammadu Buhari.”