Peter Obi, vice-presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the general election, says
leaders who are serious do not waste time to form their cabinets.
Speaking with journalists in
Lagos during the weekend, Obi called on President Muhammadu Buhari to unveil
his team as soon as possible.
Buhari was sworn in on May 29
while the main inauguration activities took place on June 12, the new Democracy
Day.
However, not a single appointment
has been made by the president since then.
Obi challenged Buhari to emulate
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, who announced his cabinet members
three days after taking the oath of office as well as Prime Minister Narendra
Modi of India who unveiled his team with the week of his inauguration.
“These are serious leaders who
are ready to move their countries forward. Imagine forming their cabinets
within one week of being sworn in,” he said.
“Can you compare them with what
is happening here in our country? I have always said it that for our country to
move forward, it must change its current compass.”
Obi also said Nigeria has so many
bad role models masquerading as leaders adding that the country is in a “total
mess” because of leadership failure.
He tackled the Buhari
administration of plunging Nigeria into a debt of over 11 trillion “despite
having nothing to show” for its time in office.
“What we have today in Nigeria is
the cumulative effect of leadership failures. A leader must know his/her
destination. Painfully, we have plenty bad role models masquerading as
leaders,” he said.
“Nigeria is in total mess because
of too much borrowing caused by leadership failures. Our situation will get
worse if we do not solve these problems urgently. There is serious crisis in
Nigeria because politics is now business and transactions. In fact, we have
reduced our lives to transactions in Nigeria.
“Tell me, what is working in
Nigeria today? A country where states owe billions and the federal government
has borrowed over N11 trillion since coming into office and there is nothing to
show for all the borrowed funds. Are you not worried that over 21 million of
our youths are not employed?
“Nigeria is gradually collapsing
and unemployment is part of the disease killing Nigeria. All hands must be on
deck to help save our nation from these leadership failures.”
He also cautioned the federal
government to be careful with the way it is going about its fight against
corruption.
“You can only fight corruption
genuinely by doing the right things as a leader. Again, you cannot be
criminalising all your citizens and still expect foreign investors to come in
and invest in your economy,” he said.
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