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APC BoT member says Nigerians losing faith in Buhari

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8 years ago

August 18, 2016

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A Board of Trustees (BoT) member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Olisaemeka Akamukale, has said that Nigerians are losing hope in the Muhammadu Buhari-led government.

This is owing to the economic situation of things and the inability of the government to begin to fulfill its change promises, after about two years, since the party assumed power.

Akamukale, an APC member from Delta State called on President Buhari to intensify efforts to reduce the economic hardship in the country.

“If you really ask me, I think Nigerians are becoming impatient with us because it is now about two years into this government. So, it is for Nigerians, and not about me or about APC members, to know what this government will do to benefit them,” he said.

The BoT member also frowned at Buhari’s appointment of three ministers who never believed he will emerge president during the 2015 election.

He told this to journalist at the national secretariat of APC in Abuja adding that should by 2019 the APC dream is cut short by Nigerians, “many people you see today, some, who are ministers and others, will go back and look for a new government to take position. They will tell you that they are technocrats because they have nothing to lose but some of us will still remain”.

He went further to say, “I agree that it is painful; I know about two or three ministers who are serving today who told me Buhari would never be President of Nigeria. Today, they are benefiting from Buhari’s administration, but it is only they that have their shame, because it is only a dog that goes back to its vomit.”

Reacting on the accusation that the APC is masterminding the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in order to destabilise them, the APC chieftain said, “Instead of PDP to put their house in order, what they have done is to inflict more injuries on themselves. Who is Modu Sheriff? You people also forget that Modu Sheriff has lost the grassroots of Borno. So, who actually needs him? He contested as a sitting governor in 2011 for Senate and lost.

“All I think PDP should do is let them take a cue from APC, do what we did. Let the name PDP die because Nigerians no longer want to reckon with the name.”

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