Politics
We’ve not failed, ‘Change is not bridges. Change is not electricity. Change is not roads’- Odigie-Oyegun
The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has told Nigerians that, despite criticism of failure to deliver, the APC was well on course to fulfil its promised change agenda, arguing that “Change is not bridges. Change is not electricity. Change is not roads”.
The APC chairman said that Nigerians should view change rather as “perception as to what is right and what is wrong, what needs to be done and being faithful in getting it done”.
This is coming on the heels of frustration being expressed by some Nigerians that the change they expected from President Muhammadu Buhari’s APC government continued to appear elusive.
But Odigie-Oyegun speaking on Thursday at a reception where he was conferred with the Distinguished Political Leadership Award by the Benin National Congress in Benin, Edo State, blamed the failures of the past administration as a major impediment to speedy attainment of development goals of the Buhari administration.
“Change is not bridges. Change is not electricity. Change is not roads. Change is my perception as to what is right and what is wrong, what needs to be done and being faithful in getting it done. For as long as we, Nigerians, have the wrong type of morality, the wrong type of ethics, not all the roads in this world will get us out of the economic morass we have plunged ourselves into.
“Change takes time and consistency of application and the resolve not to go back to the bad old days.
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“We took over a totally collapsed country. The hope is that things have started to solidify. Things have started to concretise; the economy has started to grow.
“It is not a switch; it is something that will take time. But once we are there, this nation will never experience the type of recession we had in the past.
“Until Buhari, we were a laughing stock. Today, we are gaining respectability. So, it is important that we do not lose that momentum,” he said.
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emmanuel
December 31, 2017 at 10:02 am
The worst thing that will ever happen to Nigeria will be a repeat of APC and Buhari in 2019. Buhari has reduced Nigeria to a mediocre and failed nation, and a laughing stock even among West African states.
A net oil and gas exporter that can not provide electricity for even domestic and cottage industry use. A producer of crude that does not have any of its refineries working, and cannot efficiently manage import and distribution of petroleum products to ensure sustainability.
Buhari is running Nigeria like an estate, with family and friends handling critical aspects of the economy and amassing wealth for themselves to the detriment of national development.
The administration has failed in all sectors of the economy, energy, industry, health, education, transport, security, social intervention and national cohesion.
Nigerians are fed with excuses for the past 3 years of this corrupt administration, who blames everyone and everything except themselves for their failures.
Nigerians should resolve to kick this mediocre government out of power, before the nation becomes a refugee camp.
Enough of this disgrace of a government.