Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has boasted about the chances of President Muhammadu Buhari emerging victorious in the 2019 general elections.
“We are so confident that our re-election would be easy,” he said.
The minister made the comments while inspecting the dualisation of the Ibadan-Ilorin road in Oyo state.
“Whether it is in terms of infrastructure, whether it is in terms of social intervention, every day we are working for the people.”
Mohammed believes the Buhari administration has kept its promises to the people of Nigeria.
He also believes that the President has not lost his goodwill because of the massive projects he says it is embarking on.
“Our response to critics is not to exchange banters,” he said.
“There is only one way you can get the electorates to vote for you – by keeping your promises to them and by embarking on projects that touch their lives and this is what we are doing and that is why we are so confident.
Another of such projects which Mr Mohammed pointed out is in the area of social intervention.
He said the Federal Government’s school feeding programme caters to about eight million children across primary schools.
“We are working for the common man in this country. As of today, we feed 8.2 million children in primary schools over Nigeria. In the process, we employ 87,000 cooks.
“This feeding programme in about 24 states covers 62,000 primary schools,” he added.