Minister of Health urges Nigerians to vote wisely
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has urged Nigerians to vote wisely and for progress, on election day.
Ehanire said this on Friday in Abuja at the Healthcare Transformation coalition (HTC) Symposium with the theme Repositioning The Healthcare Sector: Creating the Pathway to an Effective Health System.
The minister said it was time again in the political cycle of nations when citizens were called upon to elect their leaders and representatives for the next four years.
“Our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has fairly and squarely chosen standard bearers for the upcoming election, in primaries that brought Bola Ahmed Tinubu and running mate Shetima to the fore.
He said the candidates were high profile politicians with cognate experience in governance and leadership.
“With the great respect we have for our party and the people’s choices and wishes, we must throw our weight behind our candidates, who emerged from a transparent and democratic primary process.
“But that phase was only the preamble to the actual election battle we faced against formidable opponents and for which we are called upon to join hands in reaching out to convince voters that APC and the illustrious candidates are the right choices for them to make,” he said.
According to him, “It is our responsibility as members and leaders of thought of the party, to design and present to the public, the agenda we have crafted for them, which they can trust our candidates to faithfully execute and build upon”.
He said that the great benefits of voting APC were a firm assurance of continuity of programmes, with no hiccups, so that the country would not be taken backwards to begin all over again.
“The other advantage is that our country will be in the most assured of hands among all contestants.
“The APC administration agenda is what we will be dwelling on in today’s symposium.
“We know healthcare as the cornerstone of Human Capital Development; it is, therefore, fit and proper to devote this prime time to it,” he explained.
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