The National Chairman of African Democratic Party (ADP) Engr. Yabagi Sani has described the new year address by President Muhammadu Buhari as lacklustre, which has no grain of hope for a despaired nation.
Reacting to the presidential address in a telephone interview, the former ADP Presidential candidate wrote off the speech which he said has “nothing insightful” adding that the New Year address was as “flat as former speeches of Mr. President”
Sani who said Nigerians and the international community were disappointed by the address, observed that President Buhari failed to meet the yearnings of the people, stressing that the address failed to give any hope to the various challenges facing the country.
Sani was hard on the President for announcing plan to rejig the Security apparatus, when, according to him, all the Service Chiefs ought to have been retired to give room for fresh and more result oriented ideas by new officers.
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Hear him: “the new year address was as flat as the previous ones. What Nigerians want to hear was that Mr. President has retired all the Service Chiefs and he had appointed new ones to energise the boys and take the battles to the doorstep of the insurgents.”
When told that the President announced plan to rejig the security apparatus, the ADP Chairman said, ” how many times had he been promising to rejig. What would have excited Nigerians and the international community is that he (President Buhari) tells us that he has retired the service chiefs and not planning to rejig.”
He maintained that insecurity is the main issue in the country that requires a well thought plan, stressing that insecurity is gradually running the country aground.
“Insecurity is the most disturbing issue in the country. It is affecting so many things. Investment cannot come to the country, people are living in fear. Nigerians are no longer united because we a losing confidence in the ability of this government to govern.
“The responsibility of government to the citizens is security of lives and property as well as the welfare of the people. If government cannot guarantee these things, that government can hardly command the respect of the people.
“Today the three critical and fundamental areas of our national life are been attacked. The education sector is not functioning, our food security is threatened, as our farmers no longer go to farm for fear of being killed and the health sector is crippled by the Covid-19 infection.
“The truth is, both APC and PDP have failed the country. We need new hands to handle the affairs of the country. We are in a new age and we need new ideas thst can give hope and glavanise the people towards national development.”
