President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that his second term will be tough.
This is as he stressed that he would be unrelenting in pursuing his agenda of ensuring security, transforming the economy and fighting corruption.
The president gave the warning on Friday while addressing members of his cabinet who paid him a congratulatory visit over his re-election as president.
Addressing them at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the president emphasised the importance of securing the nation in order to allow for development.
His words: “My last lap of four years I think is going to be tough because people are very forgetful – that was why wherever I went I reminded them of the campaign by our party of the three fundamental issues – security because you have to secure a country or an institution to manage it properly.
“If you don’t secure it you can’t manage it no matter how much propaganda you put in place.
“Secondly the economy, the unemployed able bodies is the problem of this country as a whole – more than 60 per cent are youths – that meant 35 years and below – they need to be kept busy.
“I realised that and I think God heard our prayers that the two previous rainy seasons were good and we had the foresight to get the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Central Bank to try and give soft loans to farmers so that able bodies that have land can go back to land.’’
President Buhari was on Wednesday declared winner of the presidential election held on Saturday.
He defeated his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, opponent, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Atiku has since rejected the election results, saying the election was fraught with irregularities.
In his acceptance speech, Buhari who expressed gratitude to Nigerians disclosed that he would continue to run an inclusive government.
