APC Destroyed Nigeria, Inflict Hardship For 7years – Ex-minister

Bolaji Abdullahi, a former minister of sports and youth development, encouraged Nigerians on Wednesday to vote the All Progressive Congress, APC, out of power in the 2023 elections, claiming that the current ruling party had destroyed the country.

According to the former minister, Nigerians will have another historic chance to restore order to their country at the general elections in 2023.

He claimed that the ambition of making Nigeria great could only be realized if voters drove out APC-aligned politicians in the course of elections.

This was stated by Abdullahi, the PDP’s candidate for the Kwara central senatorial seat in the upcoming general election, while speaking at the 33rd session of the “Media Parliament” of the Kwara State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Ilorin monitored by BRANDNEWSDAY.

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He spoke on ‘Retooling Nigeria For the Task Ahead’.

“The APC government has dragged this nation to its knees,” Abdullahi declared. In the past seven years, everything we believed was impossible has occurred. We cannot in any way absolve APC of responsibility for the issues facing this nation.

“APC devastated this nation. Any politician running for office under the APC should receive a firm no from Nigerians. Nigeria has a historic opportunity to get back to work in 2023.

“Every Nigerian lives in fear today because of the problems of insecurity and poverty. The poorest of the poor are 90 million in Nigeria today. But we seem not to understand the magnitude of the problem facing us. We carry on as if all is well. We are treating cancer with wrapping bandage on it.”

Abdullahi also traced Nigeria’s problem to 1966 when the nation had its first coup plot, said that no nation can have peace without justice.

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He added, “After the civil war our leaders ought to realise that the Nigeria that the British gave us could not work. We should have restructured the country then.

“Another opportunity we missed to make Nigeria a real nation was the annulment of June 12. We diagnosed the issue as if it was a Yoruba problem and decided to make one of them a president in 1999. We had a lot of opportunities in June 12 debacle but we bungled them.”

Speaking on the lingering ASUU strike, the former Minister called for an urgent resolution to save the nation’s education sector from total collapse.

According to him the issue in contention should be resolved amicably to enable students resume academic activities.

He expressed worry over the security challenges in the country, adding that all hands must be on deck to bring a lasting solution to the problem.

In order to secure the country’s continued progress, Abdullahi also urged the youth to contribute their fair share.

Ahmed Abdulateef, the chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists Kwara state council, had earlier urged cooperation among all interested parties to improve the nation.