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A NEW DEAL WITH NIGERIA- RELIEF, RECOVERY AND REFORM

Nigeria needs a new deal. The All Progressive Congress’ (APC) brings a new

deal of hope and change to Nigerians. APC’s new deal is based on a social

contract between the government and the people. The vast majority of

Nigerians are in the hole of poverty, despair and hopelessness. APC brings

Relief, Recovery and Reform. The 3 Rs will reshape Nigeria in 3 important

ways.

First, APC will bring Relief such that the largest economy in Africa will

discontinue the legacy of 70% of our population or 112.5 million Nigerians

living in poverty. Families will find relief in employment for the youth and

education of all our children. No longer will our mothers and wives be the

focus of world statistics for maternal mortality nor our children die in the

multitudes. Relief will restore the dignity of the Nigerian Citizen.

Recovery for our gutted economy has never been more vital. Reliance on

rent from Oil has shattered production and encouraged wastefulness while

our infrastructure deficit has only heightened. Global economic dynamics

have changed as the discovery of shale oil and other occurrences mean we

must shape up economically or face colossal failure. APC would bring

economic recovery by growing critical sectors that put Nigerians to

productive work. The revamp and construction of physical (such as railways,

seaports, airports, hospitals and roads) and Internet infrastructure is at the

heart of APC’s Recovery plan. Importantly, we must recover our territory

and peace-of-mind from insurgents, terrorists, kidnappers and all criminal

elements that use religion and violence to perpetuate evil and insecurity in

the land.

Without Reform, all efforts to provide relief and engineer recovery will go to

waste. Crushing corruption in today’s corrupted Nigeria is a critical aspect

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of the work ahead of Nigeria. The APC will address the root causes of

corruption, punish offenders and also deter the glamourisation of

corruption.

This is the difference between the All Progressive Congress (APC) and

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This document explains what the APC

believes, what it has done and what it seeks to do. We need a New Nigeria, a

new Nigeria where government’s sole aim is to fulfil its social contract to

care for its people.

The APC believes that the common man matters while old Nigeria believes

in resource exploitation and sharing among a few. New Nigeria must get its

young children back to schools, get young Nigerians working and reduce the

number of young children dying before their fifth birthday; this is what

defines us, an ideology of the common man.

JOBS, JOBS, JOBS

THE LEGACY OF 16 YEARS OF THE PDP

v The Nigerian Bureau of Statistic says that over 20.3 million Nigerians

between 15-35 years old are jobless

v The New CBN Governor says that youth unemployment is at 80%,

national average is about 40%

v Every year, 4.5 million new entry from Colleges, Universities,

Polytechnic, Secondary Schools into the job market.

1. REL IEF

 

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WHAT IS THE APC GOING TO DO TO REVERSE THIS?

ü Within the first year, employ 740,000 (20,000 per state + FCT) young

graduates in immediate employment and empowerment scheme;

ü Will provide at least 1 million Agriculture-Sector jobs in the “just

farm, government buys scheme”. The APC government will guarantee

a minimum price for all cash crops and facilitate storage of agricultural

products to overcome seasonal shortages of selected food crops.

ü After NYSC, we will pay graduates stipends for 1 year under a

vocational scheme where they build entrepreneurial and work-

readiness capacity;

ü Will provide Internet and electricity enabled

Technology/Industrial/Outsourcing parks for small/medium

businesses and young entrepreneurs. Carry-on effect will create

hundreds of thousands new jobs;

ü Will create a scheme that provides matching grants for businesses

with secured funding that can create a minimum number of skilled

jobs.

ü One meal a day plan will create hundreds of thousands of jobs in

Agriculture, Catering, and Delivery Services

ü All around the country, the government will provide Internet and

electricity enabled Technology/Industrial/Outsourcing parks for

small/medium businesses and young entrepreneurs. Carry on effect

will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs;

FREE AND RELEVANT QUALITY EDUCATION!

THE LEGACY OF 16 YEARS OF THE PDP

v 10.5 million of our primary school aged children are out of school;

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v 35 million Nigerians are unable to read and write.

WHAT IS THE APC GOING TO DO TO REVERSE THIS?

ü Will provide free meals in schools to drastically reduce the number of

out of school children. Osun state provides free lunches and got its

school enrolment to 80%;

ü Targeting up to 20% of our annual budget for Education whilst making

substantial investments in training quality teachers at all levels of the

educational system

ü Will restructure the curricula to inculcate computer programming and

entrepreneurship from the primary to tertiary level to enhance our

national knowledge asset base;

ü Implement a performance-based education, founded on outcomes,

skills, and competences as against the current certificate based

qualification. This will eliminate exams malpractice and certificate

forgery will be resolved once and for all. Young men and women

interested in real liberal arts education, based on a true understanding

of scientific, the humanistic, and the social sciences will fill our

classrooms to be prepared for future leadership of the nation;

ü Will ensure special incentives are put in place to guarantee the

education of the girl child.

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HOUSING PLAN

THE LEGACY OF 16 YEARS OF THE PDP

v 59.2% of Nigerian Households live in Single rooms (NBS)

v 24.4 million Nigerians will be homeless by 2015

WHAT IS THE APC GOING TO DO TO REVERSE THIS?

ü Free up locked capital in land by amending the Constitution and the

Land Use Act to create freehold/leasehold interests in land along with

matching grants for states to create a nationwide electronic land title

register on a state by state basis;

ü Create an additional middle class of at least 4 million new home

owners by 2019 by establishing a national mortgage based on single

digit interest rates for purchase of owner occupier houses as well as

review the collateral qualification to make funding for home

ownership easier, with a 15 to 30 year mortgage term. This will equally

help our banking system migrate from short to long-term view to

sustain the economy.

UNIVERSAL BASIC HEALTHCARE

THE LEGACY OF 16 YEARS OF THE PDP

v Over 3,900,000 children have died between 2009 and 2014;

v 55,000 women die annually during childbirth;

v Only 1.5% of the entire population has health insurance coverage;

v 75% of Nigerians have no access to primary health care.

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WHAT IS THE APC GOING TO DO TO REVERSE THIS? RELIEF

ü Will provide universal basic care with N500 contribution per family in

the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

ü Free antenatal care for pregnant women; free health care for babies

and children up to school going age and for the aged; and free

treatment for those afflicted with infectious diseases such as

tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS;

ü Ban Medical trips for government officials;

ü Tuition reimbursement for health workers willing to relocate to rural

areas.

ü Increase the number of physicians from 19 per 1000 population to 50

per 1000 through deliberate medical education.

ü Increase national health expenditure per person per annum to about

N50,000 (from the less than N10,000 currently);

SOCIAL WELFARE PLAN FOR LESS ADVANTAGED

THE LEGACY OF 16 YEARS OF THE PDP

v 112.5 million Nigerian poor who live below US $2 per day – a

staggering 70% of the population;

v 52 years life expectancy rate

v 33rd poorest nation in the world

WHAT IS THE APC GOING TO DO TO REVERSE THIS?

ü In different phases over 4 years, APC will make monthly direct cash

transfer of NGN5,000 to the 25 million poorest citizens, if they

immunize children and enrol them in school;

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ü Will provide phased social security benefits scheme for the

unemployed, the poor, persons with disabilities, and elderly citizens;

ü Will ensure prompt payment of pensions and easier verification and

payment processes through local government areas;

ü Strengthen legislation and initiatives for the protection of persons

with disabilities;

TRANSPORT, POWER AND INFRASTRUCTURE

THE LEGACY OF 16 YEARS OF PDP

v Spent USD26 Billion on power sector, yet Nigeria has not passed

4,000 Mega Watts

v Only 40% of Nigerians have access to Electricity

v Broadband penetration is 6.9%

WHAT IS THE APC GOING TO DO TO REVERSE THIS?

2. RECOVERY

 

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ü Generate, transmit and distribute electricity on a 24/7 basis whilst

simultaneously ensuring the development of sustainable/renewable

energy, by 2019.

ü Embark on a National Infrastructural Development Programme as a

Public Private Partnership that will (a) ensure 5,000km of

Superhighway including service trunks and (b) building of up to

6,800km of modern railway completed by 2019;

ü Build an integrated gas pipeline across Nigeria to increase the

availability of clean energy at a lower cost.

ü Embark on PPP schemes that will ensure every one of the 36 states

has one functional airport, with all 21st Century safety tools for

effective commercial air travel.

ü Increase Nigeria’s broadband Internet capacity through a national

fiber-optics network to spur economic growth and create thousands

of new jobs.

SECURITY

• In 2013, 26 of every 100 kidnapping cases globally occurred in

Nigeria. With Chibok and the widespread abductions in the

Northeast, this would certainly go up in 2014.

• 2nd- Nigeria’s ranking in global terrorism deaths after Iraq. Behind

Syria and Afghanistan.

• As of November 2014, 20 LGAs under Boko-Haram

WHAT IS THE APC GOING TO DO TO REVERSE THIS?

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ü Establishing a serious crime squad with state-of-the-art training

and equipment to combat terrorism, militancy and ethno-religious

communal clashes.

ü Enable states to have their own local police forces that address the

special needs of each community, including community policing

initiatives that restore trust among local citizens.

ü Provide a comprehensive compensation plan for victims of ethno-

religious crisis, communal clashes and terrorism.

ü Initiate a national reconciliation and healing plan, beginning with a

truth and reconciliation commission on ethno-religious clashes,

ensure the teaching in our schools of religious tolerance and public

demonstrations of religious & ethnic tolerance by public officials

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FIGHT CORRUPTION- REFORM

THE LEGACY OF 16 YEARS OF THE PDP

v $20 billion or N3.3 trillion – Missing oil proceeds identified by Central

Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from January 2012- June 2013;

v $8 billion – Amount NNPC claims that it spent on illegal kerosene

subsidies;

v $6 billion – Amount CBN showed that was paid into private accounts

instead of the Federation Account;

WHAT IS THE APC GOING TO DO TO REVERSE THIS?

ü Place the burden of proving innocence in corruption cases on

persons with

inexplicable wealth.

ü Will enforce Zero tolerance for official corruption.

ü Legislation to expand forfeiture and seizure of assets for

inexplicable wealth.

ü Will guarantee independence of EFCC and ICPC.

ü Will stop corruption in elections – a truly free and independent

INEC.

ü Will ensure greater disclosure of government contracts prior to

awards.

3. REFORM

 

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ü Improve the ability of citizens to keep an eye on their government,

with more open access to government data, greater disclosure of

government contracts prior to award.