Buhari Support Group Urges Nigerians to Keep Hope Alive

•  Begs oil workers to shelve plan to go on strike

Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

The Buhari Media Support Group (BMSG) has asked Nigerians to be hopeful that the country’s circumstances will improve significantly in the new year.

The group noted that though the year 2016 was tough for everyone, “it was a year which the President Muhammadu Buhari administration used to lay foundation of economic prosperity and self-reliance in 2017 and beyond” adding that Buhari had assured that Nigerians would have cause to be happy in the new year.

It said the effort of the government to lay a solid foundation is captured in the 2017 national budget of ‘Recovery and Growth,’ adding that it was the duty of all Nigerians to work in conjunction with the government to ensure that growth and recovery takes place in 2017.

The BMSG drew attention to the threat of strike issued by workers in the oil sector and by the members of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).

According to the group, while it sympathises with the aggrieved unions on their grievances as critical stakeholders, they should endeavour to help Nigerians to enjoy a happy new year and not an unhappy one of strikes and truncated social services.

The group which professes loyalty to President Buhari pleaded with he members and leaders of the affected unions to accept dialogue with the concerned authorities and allow peace to reign in the new year.

The group said workers strike early in the new year would not advance economic recovery and growth which President Buhari and his cabinet are committed to.