A Lagos lawmaker, Mr Victor
Akande on Thursday said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term in office
would be a time of harvest for Nigerians.
Akande, representing Ojo
Constituency 1 in the Lagos State House of Assembly, made the remark in Lagos.
According to him, it is not easy
to repair in three years of what was destroyed for 16 under previous
administrations.
He said that the All Progressives
Congress (APC)-led Federal Government was moving the country to the next level
of harvesting, all the sacrifices it had made.
Akande said: “After we have moved
from this stage to the next level, which is a performing level, we will do
better.
“When you want to plant, you
clear the ground and plough it. That is what you are seeing now.
“We are sieving corrupt
minded-people away.
“We have planted, we have watered
it, so the people should wait because it is germinating now and it will soon be
harvest time,” Akande, Chairman.
Akande, who is the Chairman,
Committee on Science and Technology of the House, said that Buhari’s second
term was not threatened by the candidature of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and others in the 2019 presidential election.
According to the lawmaker, the
only opposition APC has is the one against itself.
Akande, who recently defected
from PDP to APC on the floor of the House, said that Buhari had nothing to
fear.
“We cannot be talking about the
people who ruled Nigeria for 16 years and have nothing to show for it. We are
talking about somebody who has only ruled for three years and is performing.
“Should we be afraid of those who
looted the economy. There is nothing to fear about the judgment is for the
masses.
“We cannot be fighting corruption
and some people will be complaining.
“Things were spoiled for 16 years
and another government now came to revive them, we will have to sacrifice and
give them time.”
While carpeting those blaming APC
for the harsh economy in the country, he said that the party did not cause the
current poverty in the land.
He said APC had its manifestos,
agenda, and blueprints, saying that these had to be followed gradually, adding
that they could not be done overnight.
“We are not magicians. The United
States of America did not get to where they are today overnight. Economy that
has been bad for 16 years, we cannot perform magic in four years.
“We had to find the root of the
problem and that is what President Muhammadu Buhari has done, that is what APC
has done.
“They have tried to get to the
root cause of the problem and they found a heavy corruption.
“The whole thing fall in the
hands of the bourgeoisie and who now came up with propaganda to run down the
government.
“The coming together of
unscrupulous elements cannot bring down a working government.”
On the conduct of 2019 general
elections, Akande advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
do the needful so that the people would not doubt its integrity.
Akande, who urged the politicians
to desist from anything capable of jeopardising the country’s democracy,
advised voters to vote according to their conscience.
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