The All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government has done better in the last three years than the 16 years rule of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), its national leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, said yesterday.
Tinubu spoke yesterday in Kano as a special guest of honour at the 35th Aminu Kano Annual Memorial Symposium organised by Mambayya House, Aminu Kano Centre for Research and Training, Bayero University, Kano (BUK).
The theme was: “Democratic governance and the imperatives of party ideology and supremacy.”
It was to honour Kano’s most influential politician of all times and the revered leader of the talakawa, the late Mallam Aminu Kano.
Speakers included former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido, former governor of old Kaduna State Balarabe Musa, APC chief Usman Bugaje, eminent journalist Dapo Olorunyomi and Dr. Auwal Anwar. BUK Vice Chancellor Prof. Muhammad Yahuza Bello was represented by Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics) Prof. Sagir Abbas. The ceremony was chaired by Malam Mahmud Othman.
The former Lagos State governor, who was represented by Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi, said: “When someone can do for you in three years what another did not even try in 16 years, any person with an open eye can see the difference between giver and taker, between friend and thief.”
He added: “The Buhari government has spent inordinate time cleaning the rot and plugging the holes in the corrupt system the others had institutionalised as their strategic policy and national direction.”
According to him, “the APC has been working to steer our national ship from this awful direction in order that we may bring the people and their welfare into safe harbour.
Tinubu explained that, “had the billions of dollars and trillions of naira that were stolen by past governments been used for the people, the nation would have been able to acquire the infrastructure and implement the programmes that bring greater development and economic justice to all
“Instead, the select few ate more than their bellies could contain. Distorting the course of justice and hijacking the means of national welfare, they wildly enriched themselves and left the average Nigerian to dine on the passing wind.”
He said more needed to be done. “I envision a time of even bolder action that modernises national infrastructure, implements an industrial plan that revives the textile sector and builds new industries, agricultural reform that provides farmers minimum incomes and greater access to credit.
“Mortgage reform that opens the door to affordable housing for millions of families, pension reform that insulates our aged from poverty and an expansion of the school feeding into every state and local government.”
Speaking on party ideology, Tinubu said ideology and principle must hold supremacy, adding that, “calling for party supremacy by and for its own sake is nothing but an invitation for people to install and then perpetuate themselves in positions of authority in the party.”
Tinubu described Malam Aminu Kano as a leader with high moral conduct, pointing out that, “this great man could have lived an easy life by exploiting for selfish objectives all the opportunities opened to a man of his great ability and social station.
“Instead, he devoted himself to the welfare of the people. He took the harder path because it was the true and correct one. As Aminu Kano did, we must do.”
Bauchi state Governor Mohammed Abubakar who was the Guest of Honour, noted that the questions raised at the symposium could best be answered by studying the life and times of Malam Aminu Kano who he described as upright and down-to-earth.
The Chief Host and Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje who was represented by Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Usman Alhaji Usman, urged politicians to aspire to follow the footsteps of Aminu Kano who he described as a man of integrity, honesty, simplicity and transparency.
In his paper Bugaje raised a few posers such as the difference between power and authority, legality and legitimacy, as well as eligibility and sustainability.
He argued that it was possible to have power without having authority, adding that it was also possible to be eligible, but not suitable for a given position or office.
In order to succeed, he said a leader must be knowledgeable, courageous and selfless; while adding that a leader must be like a shepherd who leads his cattle to a place of pasture and a good place where they can graze.
Olorunyomi said the need for the country to be in accord and be united in purpose.
In spite of the challenges that Rwanda recently went through, he said the country was able to bounce back into a unified entity where law and order reigned because of unity of purpose. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Let's say the three years of APC is better than 16 of PDP. How come we have people wishing that you should just leave the economy in the damaged state you met it. Get US dollar at 199. Bag of rice at 8000. Get the economy fasted growing in Africa and fifth fastest in the world. Just bring back the investors that ran away at your arcane economic policies. Please do yourself a favour j. Just shut up.
ReplyDeleteSo Tinubu could call someone a thief? it could only happen in this country. How come Tinubu acquired these properties between 1999-2007?as a governor,does he entitled to all these properties?nawa o
ReplyDeleteTinubu your aunty's sister!!!
ReplyDeletePot calling kettle black. APC, things have really gone haywire under your watch. If you are to rule for 16 years, there is going to be no country called Nigeria.
ReplyDeletebaba tinubu, for the first time in the last 9m month you goofed sir, because of politics you can adjudged on situation reasonably again. na waa o chairman reconciliation committee, Your party had drag us back beyond 26years if don't know Nigerian know better you don't need defend any falsehood, if you want people to have sympathy your party, try and own your faults and failure and then apologize instead of relegating your status by defending lies.APC is the worst thing that has ever befall this nation it is a deadly plague the need urgent cure and prevention.
ReplyDeleteTinubu and his party are disgrace to the World, I don't expect this man to make noise at all, of course he would want to fight for APC otherwise as soon as APC is out of power, the whole world will see if Tinubu and his APC people are clean or not, anyway you can run your mouth any how come 2019 Nigerians are waiting for you guys and if you people say power by all means, the invisible God himself will Signs and Wonders, because the hungers are praying seriously for your wicked party to get out of that place
ReplyDeleteThis man will never learn his lessons after selling Nigeria Birth Right to the devil and after they use him and dump him over and over he is still fighting for APC, I guess there is a hiding agenda, because Tinubu yash will leak, all Nigeria wealth he acquired he will vomit it by fire by force that is why is backing them up.
ReplyDeleteTinubu!!! Nawa oooo. Don't forget that you are part of those 16 years; chief among the thieves. Even now, the real thieves have taken center stage. What we are seeing in this APC government is unprecedented. I was an APC card carrying member but I realized in 2016 that APC, just like PDP were made up of cronies of thieves. Tinubu statement is in tandem with the proverbial statement, "A pot calling a kettle black"
ReplyDeleteIT IS NOT TINUBU BUT ALL OF YOU HUNGRY & IMPATIENT COMMENTATORS THAT GOOFED!
ReplyDeleteYOU CAN ONLY BUILD A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY THROUGH LONG TERM PLANNING AND INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT: AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS APC GOVT IS DOING!
Patience and demonstration of industry is the only thing we the Nigerian people need do to reap the fruit of our labour at this critical juncture of our nationhood.
#ForwardEver Nigerians!
@Eze,Eso....I a retrogressive manner abi? I think you are not only a bloody ignorant but mad as well
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