Former minister of Sports and Youth Development, Bolaji Abdullahi, has maintained that the dream of making Nigeria great could only be achieved if citizens vote-out politicians within the fold of the All Progressive Congress (APC) during the forthcoming 2023 general elections.
The ex-minister who said that the ruling party has ruined the nation, however noted that the 2023 general elections offer Nigerians another historic opportunity to make the country work again.
The Kwara central senatorial candidate of the PDP, in the forthcoming general election expressed this while featuring at the 33rd edition of the ‘Media
Parliament’ of the Kwara State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Ilorin.
Speaking on ‘Retooling Nigeria For the Task Ahead’, Abdullahi said that Nigerians are treating cancer with wrapping bandage on it.
In his words; “The APC government has brought this nation to its kneels. All the things we thought could not happen has happened in the last seven years. There is no way we can exonerate APC from the problems of this country.
“APC has ruined this country. Nigerians should say no to any politician seeking elective office under APC. 2023 presents historic opportunity to make Nigeria work again.
“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, saying that no nation can have peace without justice.
According to him, “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.