A chieftain of the All Progressives
Congress and the party’s senatorial candidate for the Akwa Ibom
North-West senatorial district, Chief Inibehe Okori, has said that the
President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, will shock critics with his
pronouncements on May 29.
Speaking in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State
capital, on Sunday, Okori stated that Buhari would prove to Nigerians
and the international community that corruption would be checked as soon
as the president-elect settled down to work.
He added that Buhari’s proclamation,
dedication and discipline will go a long way in restoring hope, faith
and confidence of the citizens in the country.
He
said, “Unlike other presidents who were not prepared for leadership but
foisted on the country by individuals and interest groups, the
President-elect has consistently presented himself to the electorate to
lead the country on four occasions and had his visions well enunciated.
“Buhari is taking over government on May
29 and from that day, I expect that he will make major pronouncements
that will position Nigeria for greatness. This country must have a
direction and move in the way it should. We don’t have any reason to be
poor. We have no reason to remain the way we are – not after earning
more than $50bn annually from oil and gas.”
Explaining that the expectations of the
people from the incoming administration were high, he noted that there
was the need for Nigerians to be patient with Buhari’s administration
because “Rome was not built in a day.”
He said that within the period of one
year of Buhari’s presidency, the international perception about the
country would change and Nigeria would regain her rightful place in the
comity of nations.
Okori lamented the poor state of the
Uyo-Afaha-Nkan-Nkwot- Nnung-Ukum Road which had remained motorists’
nightmare, regretting that the people of Ikono were made to suffer
untold hardship from “a government that claimed it had already completed
the road at the cost of N26.4bn in the 2014 budget.”
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