A group of octogenarians took to the streets of Lagos on Friday to hail President Muhammadu Buhari whom they said has decimated the Boko Haram insurgency.
The group during a rally which kicked off from Freedom Park in Lagos and ended at Alausa Government House witnessed thousands of the elderly Nigerians who also commended the gallantry of Nigerian Army and its leadership.
The rally was staged under the auspices of Southwest Veterans And Concerned Patriotic Elders’s (SouthWest-V &PE).
National President of the group, Elder Johnson Adebayo said President Buhari has liberated several communities held by the insurgency in same manner the Biblical Moses liberated the Israelites from their Egyptian captors.
He said, “We have seen a repeat of Moses’s leadership of the Israelite in their most difficult times, reflected in the present leadership of our cherished country Nigeria, by President Muhammadu Buhari.
He has played the role of the Chief armour bearer of the defeat of the enemies of Nigeria, as directed by God.
“The idea of this elaborate, a thousand-man rally march from us, Nigerians of septuagenarian and octogenarian ages is to drum support for President Buhari’s rewarding leadership. It is also our token of open appreciation of the Nigerian Military for their courageous demystification of the formerly deified Boko Haram insurgents.”
He backed the reforms introduced by the President which have reduced corruption in the public service to the barest minimum.
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