VP says Buhari will not let Nigerians suffer

The Vice-President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has assured Nigerians that they will not suffer under the Buhari led administration.

He said this while inaugurating some projects in Ogun state, as a continuation of the 40th anniversary of the state.

Punch reports that Osinbajo said “We will implement all our campaign promises. We will create jobs for the unemployed youths. We shall create 500,000 jobs for volunteer teachers. They will be trained and employed.

“We also have programmes for market men and women and artisans. We will give them soft loans to boost their business. The masses were those that voted for us, the masses will not suffer under this administration.”

The Vice-President also said “The development of our country should be of utmost importance to all of us. We should continue to proclaim it loud that corruption should not be tolerated. We have to keep saying it everywhere that no corrupt person would go scot-free.”

Adding that “Whoever is involved and whatever his status is, he must answer for such wrongdoing. We have to keep proclaiming that everywhere.

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“The Federal Government wants to do more for Nigerians, especially in the area of micro-finance and micro-credit schemes but corruption has been the bane of our development. We need money to do all these things.”

Ogun State was created in February 1976. It is named after the Ogun River which runs right across it from north to south.