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APC’s ignorance reason change promise is still elusive, Oyegun confesses

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The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has blamed his party’s ignorance of the enormity of the country’s economic woes before taking over power in 2015, as reason for Nigeria’s debilitating situation.

He however, assured Nigerians not to give up hope in the APC-led Federal Government, saying that President Muhammadu Buhari is determined to fix Nigeria and bring it to an enviable country.

The APC chairman who said this during at a surprise 77th birthday party held for him by staff of the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Friday that God blessed Nigeria with President Muhammadu Buhari, who is ready to take the challenge of fixing the economy.

Noting that it has really been tough for the nation, Oyegun said that the APC during its electioneering campaigns and promises never understood things were really as bad as the party discovered after it assumed power.

He said it was necessary that the party continue to hammer on their ignorance of the true state of the economy before assuming office.

“It has been tough times for the nation. When we were campaigning and it is necessary to continue to hammer on this part, we were not in government. We knew things were very bad, but we did not know they were as bad as we eventually found them and the revelations that come out every day continue to buttress that fact.

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“Nobody ever expected the price of crude to collapse in the way it has done and one can only repeat what Mr. President said a few days ago. That is for being a nation that had an excess crude account, today because of the collapse of the price of crude, a lot of states of this country do not have enough resources to meet their basic functions, responsibilities.

Odigie-Oyegun, continued, “we would never again depend on a single crop whether it is oil, whether it is solid minerals, whether it is agriculture, the president is laying a single foundation, very solid foundation, for the take-off of this nation such that all the resources that God has endowed this nation with, whether it is in solid minerals that it is plentiful, whether it is in agriculture, we can grow virtually anything in this nation of ours we have been blessed with rich soil.

“The Nigeria of tomorrow would be a Nigeria that produces, the Nigeria of tomorrow would be a Nigeria that can give employment to its youth. The Nigeria of the tomorrow would be a nation that would provide plentiful opportunities for its people that is the Nigeria Buhari is presently constructing. We should all see the present deprivation as the sacrifices to ensure the greatness of this nation,” he said.

By Ebere Ndukwu …

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