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A group of elders held a rally in support of President Muhammadu Buhari in Lagos on Friday.

They walked from Freedom Park in Ojota, Lagos, to the government house in Alausa, Ikeja.

Addressing the rally, Johnson Adebayo, national president, Southwest Veterans And Concerned Patriotic Elders’s (SouthWest-V &PE), said the current administration has liberated several communities held by the insurgency in same manner of the Biblical Moses liberated the Israelites from their Egyptian captors.

“We have seen a repeat of Moses’s leadership of the Israelites in their most difficult times, reflected in the present leadership of our cherished country by President Muhammadu Buhari,” he said.

“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.”

Adebayo also commended the president for the various reforms he has introduced.

“It has erased the bottlenecks strewn on the path of elderly citizens of this great nation in accessing their retirement entitlements,” he said.

“Our President is leading Nigeria on a progressive path in many ways. Some of us are proud beneficiaries of his welfare schemes like the Conditional Cash Transfers to the elderly and less privileged Nigerians under his Social Investment Programme.

“The school feeding programme for our children in primary schools across the federation is another unquantifiable assistance to the elderly, which has lifted the burden of searching our pockets and bags every morning to find feeding money for our school children.”