Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has remarked that the problems crippling Nigeria requires firm, visionary and disciplined leadership to resolve and tasked the new Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national leaders to provide workable solutions and methods to help tackle the challenges head on.
Gov. Tambuwal, who is also the chairman, PDP Governors Forum, stated that the nation must quickly restructure, echoing the stand of governors elected on the platform of the PDP that Nigeria must restructure to take its rightful place in the comity of developed nations. The governor spoke at the two-day retreat organised for the newly-elected PDP National \Working Committee members, which commenced on Tuesday in Abuja. Addressing the well attended gathering at the prestigious NAF Conference Centre, Kado, Abuja, Gov. Tambuwal charged the new party executive members to device ways for the PDP to salvage the nation from its rapid decline.
He said that the PDP is poised to write a new positive chapter for Nigeria, pointing out that the success of the party’s recent national convention which was completed without rancour shows unmistakably that the party is back and ready to turn things around for good. According to the governor, “a rickety vehicle cannot take Nigeria to its destination as the nation with possibilities for greatness and progress. PDP is now once again a welloiled and serviced vehicle that will midwife the Nigeria of our dreams. “It is indeed time to rescue and rebuild Nigeria. Nigeria is in an urgent need for a surgical operation. Nigeria is in a permanent emergency. “We all know what the problems are. They are manmade and are therefore resolvable. It requires a focused, determined, knowledgeable and patriotic organisation of like minds to build the critical mass necessary for a great leap forward.”
Gov. Tambuwal added that the country is suffering from a crisis of governance, asserting that the unity of Nigeria is facing unprecedented challenges, while life is increasingly becoming brutish and short as insecurity ravages the land with poverty the forte of the ordinary Nigerian. While declaring that the PDP has shown that it has learnt its lessons, Gov. Tambuwal said the party is ready to take over power in 2023 and provide hope where ineptitude currently exists.
“Where APC thrives on excuses, PDP will take responsibility. Where APC thrives in propaganda and deceit, PDP will be transparent with Nigerians. Whereas the APC government thrives in insecurity, PDP will secure Nigeria. “Whereas APC presides over Nigeria as the poverty capital of the world, PDP will make Nigeria prosperous. APC has wrecked our economy, but PDP will salvage it.