Oyegun To Buhari: Deliver The Change You Promised Nigerians

A former national chairman of the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has lamented that the
APC-led government is yet to implement its change agenda for the
nation six years after coming to power.

Oyegun, a former governor of Edo State, spoke at the weekend in
Abuja, during the public presentation of a book titled ‘APC’s
Litmus Tests: Nigerian Democracy and Politics of Change’, written
by the Director General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF),
Salihu Mohammed Lukman.

He said President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC must address the
current agitations and social unrest in the country and deliver on
the change agenda.

Buhari’s campaign for the 2015 and the 2019 elections centred on
three cardinal principles – economy, security and fighting
corruption.

Oyegun said, “We are in charge today, a progressive government,
a progressive regime and I think it is proper that we show to the
nation that when the people want some degree of change we should be
responsive to it, we should address it.

“We cannot continue to allow the subject to become something
that threatens our nation at any turn. So, the earlier we address
it, the earlier we show that as a party we are responsive to the
feelings of the people, the desires of the people and the wants of
the people.

“Look at what is happening. Today, we are having all sorts of
organisations cropping out with all sorts of names. We haven’t
defined their operational status. We haven’t defined their
relativity properly with the established security agents and the
rest. Things are bad, there is no question. People are angry, there
is no question. People are hungry, there is no question.”

Oyegun, who asked the APC-led government to address the
insecurity in the land, also expressed displeasure over the
non-implementation of the Governor Nasir El-Rufai-led Committee on
True Federalism.

He said the report if implemented would stabilise the
country

Speaking at the occasion, Yobe State Governor and Chairman of
the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai
Mala Buni who was represented by a member of the Caretaker
Committee representing the Youth Wing, Barrister Ismail Ahmed, said
the party had gone through a lot from the period of formation to
date because it is an amalgamation of different political
parties.

A former national chairman of the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has lamented that the
APC-led government is yet to implement its change agenda for the
nation six years after coming to power.

Oyegun, a former governor of Edo State, spoke at the weekend in
Abuja, during the public presentation of a book titled ‘APC’s
Litmus Tests: Nigerian Democracy and Politics of Change’, written
by the Director General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF),
Salihu Mohammed Lukman.

He said President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC must address the
current agitations and social unrest in the country and deliver on
the change agenda.

Buhari’s campaign for the 2015 and the 2019 elections centred on
three cardinal principles – economy, security and fighting
corruption.

Oyegun said, “We are in charge today, a progressive government,
a progressive regime and I think it is proper that we show to the
nation that when the people want some degree of change we should be
responsive to it, we should address it.

“We cannot continue to allow the subject to become something
that threatens our nation at any turn. So, the earlier we address
it, the earlier we show that as a party we are responsive to the
feelings of the people, the desires of the people and the wants of
the people.

“Look at what is happening. Today, we are having all sorts of
organisations cropping out with all sorts of names. We haven’t
defined their operational status. We haven’t defined their
relativity properly with the established security agents and the
rest. Things are bad, there is no question. People are angry, there
is no question. People are hungry, there is no question.”

Oyegun, who asked the APC-led government to address the
insecurity in the land, also expressed displeasure over the
non-implementation of the Governor Nasir El-Rufai-led Committee on
True Federalism.

He said the report if implemented would stabilise the
country

Speaking at the occasion, Yobe State Governor and Chairman of
the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai
Mala Buni who was represented by a member of the Caretaker
Committee representing the Youth Wing, Barrister Ismail Ahmed, said
the party had gone through a lot from the period of formation to
date because it is an amalgamation of different political
parties.