Acting president, Yemi Osinbajo,
has told Ministers in the Federal Executive Council that excuses will no longer
be tenable in the Buhari-led administration.
The Acting President spoke at the
Cabinet retreat on ERGP implementation and 2018 budget preparation process held
at the state house in Abuja yesterday.
According to him, “After
listening to Dr. Idris Jala all I can say is as the opposition leader in
Malaysia said this is what I have been saying for the past 50 years!
“But seriously he is so right the
challenge is this, the discipline to be unreasonable in our targets and
objectives.
“The discipline of attending the
labs diligently and accepting to be locked in a room for as long as it takes to
iron out what it is that needs to be done.
“I like the point also that Dr
Jala made that the excuse that it won’t work here, the Nigerian factor, or some
say exceptionalism, or the acceptance of failure before you even start is
certainly not tenable any more.
“We simply have to accept that there is
nothing Nigerian about failure, because as we know in our personal lives,
failure and success are commodities on offer to everyone all over the world and
every individual and every country makes a choice of which to buy and I will
say on our behalf that we will choose success.
“Dr Jala I have heard
motivational speeches, but this is one I think that challenges our whole
legitimacy as persons entrusted with leadership.
“I think it goes beyond
motivational speech, I think it really challenges the core of our relevance as
leaders and I am challenged and I know that many of us here are and I think
that we will do what we need to do to make sure that we see through the labs
that we have to identify specific areas where we will do this labs.
“We must see to it that this
works. I want to thank you again for this exceptional moment you have taken us
through and to thank all of you also for taking the time to come. So the work
has just begun.”
Jala, a former Malaysian
government official was a guest speaker at the cabinet retreat.
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