The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Thursday said although the President Buhari's administration had achieved a lot in the two years of its existence, too many Nigerians were still too poor to be ignored.

Tinubu made the call in his keynote address at the public presentation of a book, “Making Steady, Sustainable Progress for Nigeria’s Peace and Prosperity” at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Tinubu recalled that before the inception of the present administration the Boko Haram sect wreaked havoc daily.

He said the sect invaded towns and villages, erasing the peace and normalcy of the people to replace it with wanton brutality, hatred and death.

“They hoisted their dreadful flag where only the green and white of Nigeria should have been.
“Today, that evil flag is not planted over an inch of our precious land. This violent scourge recedes into the darkened shadows of inhumanity from whence it came.

“People once under its horrid dominion now breathe the air of freedom and safety.

“Boko Haram has not been completely defeated. But there is no question, that it has been decimated and made shorter and weaker. They shall never constitute the threat they once were.

“This is no accident. It is the result of the policies and commitment of President Buhari, his government and the men and women of our armed forces who place their lives on the line in silent heroism to protect this nation and its people.

“Had the previous government remained in place, Boko Haram would have surely eaten more territory and devoured more people. This nation might have indeed been divided and cut asunder, not by choice but by the knife of terrorism,” he said.

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