by Damilola Jagun

 

In the manifesto, which consists of his plans for the country, All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, has promised to provide free meals for primary school pupils and allowances for unemployed Youth Corps members.

If elected in 2015, Buhari pledged to provide daily meals for pupils and also pay monthly stipend to discharged but unemployed Youth Corps members for 12 months while in the skills and entrepreneurial development programmes.

Furthermore, the Buhari manifesto also promised to create a ‘Social Welfare Program’, which will pay five thousand naira (N5000) to the 25 million poorest Nigerian citizens.

According to the document, the Social Welfare Program will only be effective, when parents are able to show proof of their children’s enrolment in school and evidence of immunisation.

The manifesto stated in part: “As a nation and the Sub Saharan Africa’s leading energy producer, we had in the past squandered the opportunity to build functional infrastructure to better the lives of the average Nigerian. We can no longer afford this luxury of inactivity.”

“We must revive our public and private sectors in order to provide functional services and secure the good of the individual Nigerian and his or her family.”