A former governor of old Bendel State and a member of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Dr Samuel Ogbemudia, while
meeting with members of the committee he set up to oversee the yearly
Award of the Best Journalist in Edo State urged Nigerians to stop
attacking President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent appointments…
The elder statesman, who noted that Nigerian will never forgive if he
fails, explained that the president needed time to settle for the best
people who can work for the country – He said:
“When they knew that the man said he met everything inYou agree??
bad shape and in such situation you need to clean up the system so as to
start on a good note.”
“Nigerians asked him (Buhari) to appoint people, who can work with
him and he can only appoint people he knows. If he fails by appointing a
United Nation they will say it was his fault, they ought to have known.
But he is now picking people he has tremendous trust in their ability.
“So, those criticizing him should let him do his work. If at the end
of four years he did not perform, then Nigerians have another
opportunity to either say carry on or stop.
“All these criticisms, I do not buy them. And the people who are
criticising him probably they have never held any government position,
they don’t know what is happening there, that all that glitters is not
gold.”
He added that:
“first and foremost, Buhari was elected for four years and in the
programme of events which led to the elections, at no time was hundred
days mentioned.
“That they are being done in the past was perhaps a persuasive
authority but that does not mean that everybody should keep to it. A
programme well thought out to bring Nigeria back to the line of
development, the line of security and so on, planning alone takes more
than a hundred days.
“So, I expect that when eventually he finished the home work he will
come out with something big. When he was elected, Nigerians had very
high expectation of his performance and in order not to disappoint
Nigerians, he wants to take time to plan his programme so that when
eventually he pushes it out they will welcome it.
“So, they can excuse him because the Buhari they knew earlier on is
no longer the same Buhari because this is a democracy. He has the
National Assembly and the judicial arm now. His powers then is being
shared with these two arms now.
“He cannot join the bandwagon, as a matter of fact that is why he
wants to change the evil ways things are done before so that Nigeria
will be better”
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