The national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance , APGA, Sly Ezeokenwa, has expressed appreciation for several policies implemented by President Bola Tinubu, saying that subsidy removal as a significant positive step for the country.
The party listed three major problems hampering growth in the country as politics of religion, ethnicity, and constitutional review.
Speaking at the APGA southeast zonal office in Awka, Anambra state, Ezeokenwa said that critics of the president are overlooking his focus and understanding of the nation’s issues.
Ezeokenwa said: “Those criticizing the president were missing the point because according to him, “Tinubu is focused and knows where the shoe pinches.
“Again, his decision to come up with palliative to cushion the effect of the subsidy removal is another knockout in some of his policies within a few months of he assumed office.
“I believe Mr President came prepared for this job and people should exercise patience and give him some time to settle well. His government will not be like the previous one.”
He hinted that the former governor of the state, Peter Obi, might rejoin APGA, describing him as a student of the APGA Institute of good governance, while he’s still a student of the same institute.
He credited Obi’s national recognition to his time as an APGA Governor, stating that the party is working on reconciling him and other leaders like Chief Chekwad Okorie.
He stated: “With these, we can have true federalism which is what the country needs to move forward. However, the country is one and that’s the only way for us to be the number one in the world”
He said what he wanted to do in APGA was to rebrand it, adding that the party would not do it alone without embracing other political parties and ethnic groups.
“It’s going to be an alliance to solve the Nigeria problems. We have to bring every ethnic group together for alignment and realignment.
“Another problem we have in the country is not only leadership but also followership, the last one is even worse. We want Nigeria to be driven by the young people.”
He said the arrangement was on in expanding the party beyond Anambra and southeast, but throughout the country, adding that with such an arrangement, the party would capture more states
Credit- The Nation
