Buhari, Governors Should Stop Blame Games And Fix The Problems – APC Chieftain, Al’ameen
BY ADEYEMI AKANJI, BAUCHI – A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Bauchi State, Alhaji Muhammamad Sani Al’ameen has counseled President Muhammadu Buhari and the 36 States Governors to use the remaining period of their days in office to address the challenges confronting Nigerians than engage in blame game over the issue of Local Government funds.
Al’ameen pointedly said that it is obvious that the country is sinking, stressing that there is the urgent need for leaders to summon courage and provide credible leadership that will rescue Nigeria from sinking instead of the blame games against each other.
He specifically noted that the present crop of leaders have failed the citizens by not being able to meet with the yearnings and aspirations of the citizens thereby left the people crying in difficult situations in all aspects of living.
Al’ameen, who was a Governorship aspirant in Bauchi State on the platform of the APC, particularly urged President Buhari and the governors to set in motion, a political will that will address the problems bedeviling the country.
Al’ameen stated these while reacting to the ongoing blame game between the Federal Government and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, stressing that the major problems bedeviling the country include abject poverty, insecurity, high cost of living and bad governance.
He further said; “The inability of the leaders to make judicious use of the resources at their disposal to improve the living standards of the common man led to the rising level of poverty among Nigerians which was a consequence of the biting effect of insecurity on commercial and agricultural activities.
“The President as the chief security officer of the country and the governors as chief security officers of their respective states, failed in the area of providing adequate security and public safety which is the primary duty of any government that is to ensure the security of lives and property without which no sensible human activity takes place.
“But governments at all levels are unable to fulfil this covenant with the people, thus allowing bandits, insurgents, and kidnappers to turn the country into a killing field, maiming and abducting people, in schools market squares and even on their farmlands all over the country.
“Under the current administration, the NNPC, failed to remit statutory allocations to states for several months, even monies budgeted for, such federal ministries like Agriculture, Rural Development, and Humanitarian Affairs, are not being deployed in the direction of the people.
“On many occasions, the people at the helm of affairs of these ministries were accused of diverting money through alleged dubious ways and corruption, but the executives where silent. They didn’t investigate the allegations. They allowed them to continue in office.
“It is high time we emulate leaders of the world who when they see they are failing, they resigned in the best interest of the country,” he said.
Al’ameen therefore advised leaders at all levels of governance to provide exemplary leadership that will ease the hostile environmental where common man is the only one feeling the heat always, and address the challenges bedeviled the country.
He appealed to President Buhari to fulfill his promise of conducting credible, free, fair and acceptable elections to serve as an important legacy by ensuring the independence and autonomy of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as a legacy he will leave behind for the country.
