Chief Okey Nwosu is the National Chairman, African Democratic Congress (ADC). In this interview, he speaks on the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and the fight against Boko Haram in the country.
What is your assessment of Buhari regime?
For a presidency that took four elections and unprecedented propaganda, loss of human lives, arson, and destruction of properties and national psyche, and close to stampeding the first Niger Deltan out of office, I am appalled that the Buhari government did not hit the ground running. This country was ridiculed just for it to appear as if with Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, the nation was going to collapse. I expected to see some sense of urgency. I expected to see clear agenda of purpose, and I expected the government to run with the mandate of the people with the change the people wanted to see, not to pocket the people’s trust and relax, or start planning. No time to lose.
You know HRH Sanusi Lamido once spoke of the “entrenched interests”. He said that these people were very powerful. If nothing has been done by the new government and the nation is as we experience it at the moment; it means that these “entrenched interests” wanted to terminate the Jonathan government and created all the confusions that seemed to challenge the Jonathan government. The state is auto-piloting on some of the structures that, that government put in place. That said, Nigerians are getting impatient with the slow pace and what appears to be political witch hunting.
I have also noticed quite a number of flip-flopping and what looks to be insensibility to the nation’s diversity in some of the president’s actions. But I am a very optimistic patriot. So, I am in favour of allowing the president more time. I will rather err on patience, than heat up the polity and see untoward consequences.
You know HRH Sanusi Lamido once spoke of the “entrenched interests”. He said that these people were very powerful. If nothing has been done by the new government and the nation is as we experience it at the moment; it means that these “entrenched interests” wanted to terminate the Jonathan government and created all the confusions that seemed to challenge the Jonathan government. The state is auto-piloting on some of the structures that, that government put in place. That said, Nigerians are getting impatient with the slow pace and what appears to be political witch hunting.
I have also noticed quite a number of flip-flopping and what looks to be insensibility to the nation’s diversity in some of the president’s actions. But I am a very optimistic patriot. So, I am in favour of allowing the president more time. I will rather err on patience, than heat up the polity and see untoward consequences.
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