John Oyegun, national chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), says President
Muhammadu Buhari was given a very difficult task,
but that he is doing well in tackling the challenges he
met on the ground.
According to a statement issued by Edegbe
Odemwingie, APC assistant publicity director, on
Wednesday, Oyegun said this when he received a
delegation of the party from Niger state led by
Mohammed Jibril Adamu, state chairman, and
Abdullahi Shuaibu Maje, chairman of Suleja local
government council, in Abuja on Tuesday evening.
Oyegun told the delegation that the national working
committee (NWC) had worked tirelessly to ensure the
unity of the APC which he said is the product of a
merger of progressive parties.
He said though the task of rebuilding the country was
difficult, the Buhari administration was already
recording success in different areas of government.
“The leadership of the party, in this case the national
working committee (NWC) has tried to the best of its
ability to do the difficult process of welding together
the party that was created out of three, four other
parties. It has not been easy as you very well know.
But we thank God that by and large; it has been a
significant success,” he said.
“It is a very difficult task that we have all thrust on the
president. We had to deal with a predecessor regime
whose hallmark was corruption. A regime that had lost
all vision; that had lost all interest in developing our
nation given the kind of resources that were available.
A regime that instead of developing, wasted our
national resources such that as at the time we were
taking over, there really was nothing. The economy
had already collapsed. Salaries were not being paid.
Public infrastructure had collapsed. Price of oil had
also collapsed.
“So, the president had a very difficult situation to
handle. It is not surprising then the kind of pain that a
lot of our brothers and sisters are going through
today. One will depend on people like you to help us
pass the message to our people that this is just a
passing phase; this is an evil that was created by
predecessor regimes. The president and his team are
working flat out to make sure that our economy is
diversified and our nation no longer depends on oil
only. I pray that God restore the president to complete
health so that he can continue the mission.
“There is no magic to it. It is taking time, but this
country will never go back to the bad old days where
all we did was divide the money from oil. Today, I am
very proud of the accomplishment of states like Kebbi,
Jigawa, Zamfara and the rest of them in agriculture.
Today, Nigerian rice is becoming what we all eat.
Tomorrow by God’s grace, we will be able to export
Nigerian rice to the rest of Africa and far beyond.”
TheCable
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