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| Muhammadu Buhari, President-elect of Nigeria |
By Etim Ekpimah
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and
the party’s senatorial candidate for the Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial
district, Chief Inibehe Okori, has said that the President-elect, Muhammadu
Buhari, will shock critics with his pronouncements on May 29.
Speaking in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, on
Sunday, Okori stated that Buhari would prove to Nigerians and the international
community that corruption would be checked as soon as the president-elect
settled down to work.
He added that Buhari’s proclamation, dedication
and discipline will go a long way in restoring hope, faith and confidence of
the citizens in the country.
He said, “Unlike other presidents who were not
prepared for leadership but foisted on the country by individuals and interest
groups, the President-elect has consistently presented himself to the
electorate to lead the country on four occasions and had his visions well
enunciated.
“Buhari is taking over government on May 29 and
from that day, I expect that he will make major pronouncements that will
position Nigeria for greatness. This country must have a direction and move in
the way it should. We don’t have any reason to be poor. We have no reason to
remain the way we are – not after earning more than $50bn annually from oil and
gas.”
Explaining that the expectations of the people
from the incoming administration were high, he noted that there was the need
for Nigerians to be patient with Buhari’s administration because “Rome was not
built in a day.”
He said that within the period of one year of
Buhari’s presidency, the international perception about the country would
change and Nigeria would regain her rightful place in the comity of nations.
Okori lamented the poor state of the
Uyo-Afaha-Nkan-Nkwot- Nnung-Ukum Road which had remained motorists’ nightmare,
regretting that the people of Ikono were made to suffer untold hardship from “a
government that claimed it had already completed the road at the cost of
N26.4bn in the 2014 budget.”
Culled from
Punch newspaper
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