Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, says “changing the
change” in 2019 would reverse all the achievements of the All Progressives
Congress (APC).
In an article he titled ‘The Real
Price of Changing the Change (1)’, Shehu said Nigerians needed to understand
the implication of voting out President Muhammadu Buhari.
Shehu said members of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) have only been calling for changing the change “without
defining what exactly that means”.
But Shehu said “the real meaning
and cost of the “Changing the Change” is a reversal of the victory gained
against corruption.
Shehu claimed that Patience
Jonathan, former first lady, will be the
happiest person if PDP regains power.
“As the governing All
Progressives Congress (APC) gears up to celebrate the completion of three years
of the Buhari government in the centre on May 29th, Nigerians need to be
reminded of what the reversal of the achievements of this administration will
amount to,” Shehu said.
“The main reason for the defeat
of the PDP in 2015 was corruption. The present administration at the centre led
by President Muhammadu Buhari has so far presented a corrupt-free image of
itself. It has also succeeded in abolishing grand corruption at the top.
“The list of people who oppose
the Buhari government and yearning to ‘‘change the change’’ include a number of
parliamentarians, policemen, customs officials, immigration officials, civil
servants now rooting for other political parties, not leaving out those various
businesses and platforms owned by these political parties directly or
indirectly.
“The beneficiaries won’t like
that the security threat is eliminated. Yes, for them, “Changing the Change” is
an opportunity for a resumption of business as usual.
“But the happiest of them all
will be Mrs. Jonathan, who will get the first priority when the refunds start
coming for obvious reasons. The former First Lady would not anymore need
lawyers to keep her mountain of gifts, counted in huge millions of dollars,
billions of naira, hotels and buildings.
“The Buhari win in 2015, and the
possibility of four more years have crumbled their dreams of endlessly looting
the state and the growing list of achievements of the administration is not
doing any good for them… Buhari is bad business for them.”
Shehu further listed the
casualties of changing the change to include initiatives like the whistle
blower policy, Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme ( VAIDS), ease of
doing business.
“Changing the Change means that
we will go back to the old ways of doing things,” he said.
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