The All Progressives Congress (APC) has assured
Nigerians that the party is ready, willing and
determined to make all the necessary sacrifices to
reverse the prevailing gloomy situation in the
country and bring about the much-needed change
for the better in the interest of the long-suffering
citizens.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its
Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, the party said Nigerians should go
into the New Year with an unyielding commitment
to be part of ongoing efforts to set the country on
the path of growth and development, rather than
get into a state of funk on the basis of the
cumulative mis-governance of the past 14 years by
the PDP-led Federal Government.
''While wishing all Nigerians a great 2014, we
hereby solicit their unalloyed support for our efforts
to reshape the country's political landscape, shake
off the heavy yoke imposed on them by their
selfish, self-serving and clueless leaders and make
the country a source of pride not only to its
citizens but to all black people in the world,'' it
said.
APC said the first step in what will be a tough but
final battle to rescue Nigeria from the clutches of
rapacious leaders will be to bring the citizenry on
board the train of change that is barrelling through
the country, and to ensure that elections in the
country are free, fair and credible.
''As we wrote in the preamble to our manifesto,
'democracy, to be stable and meaningful, must be
anchored on the principle that government derives
its powers from the consent of the governed....This
means that governments are instituted on the
basis of free, fair and credible elections, and are
maintained through responsiveness to public
opinion.
'''In addition, the exercise of political authority is
rooted in the rule of law. APC believes in the
doctrine of social contract between the leaders and
the led; which means that the public office holder
is a trustee of the people and that power must be
used in the interest of the people rather than in the
interest of the public office holder','' the party said.
It said in order to ensure that as many Nigerians
as possible are brought aboard the APC train of
change, the party will kick-start its membership
registration drive early in the year, targeting in
particular the youth who are indispensable in any
effort to bring about change.
''We ask all those who are yearning for genuine
change to seize the moment and embrace the
engine of change, which the APC represents! Our
compatriots who have lost faith in our dear country
because of inefficient and corrupt leadership can
count on us, because we represent committed,
transparent and focused leadership,'' APC said.
The party pledged to halt the country's drift
towards a failed state with a conscious plan for a
post-oil economy in Nigeria, details of which will
be outlined in the weeks and months ahead; and to
make the welfare and security of the citizenry,
which is the raison d'etre of any government, its
top priority;
APC said that in order to extricate Nigeria from the
dire straits in which it has been plunged by the
successive PDP governments, the party has
decided to make as its priority the War Against
Corruption; Food security; Accelerated Power
Supply; Integrated Transport Network; Free
Education; Devolution of Power; Accelerated
Economic Growth and Affordable Health Care.
''We know skeptics will sneer at these and deride
them as mere sloganeering. After all, Nigerians
have been taken for a ride for the past 14 years by
those who have mistaken transmogrification for
transformation, and those who have relentless
pursued power for the sake of power, rather than to
use it to harness the country's abundant human
resources.
''But most things look impossible until they have
been achieved, and the impressive record of
performance in the states under our control, from
Kano to Imo states and from Lagos to Edo,
testifies to our ability, determination and
willingness to make things happen for the benefit
of our people,'' the party said.
Meanwhile, the party has said the year 2013 is
among the worst, if not the worst, for the citizenry,
who have been pauperized and dehumanized by a
government that keeps touting favourable economic
statistics in the face of an unprecedented fall in
the standard of living of its people.
''They say President Jonathan's achievement in
2013 is unprecedented, yet Nigerians celebrated the
Christmas and New Year holidays in unprecedented
pitch darkness and an unprecedented number of
our youths are unemployed; They say they are
winning the war against corruption, yet key
government officials, including the so-called
Coordinating Minister of the Economy, do not even
know how much Nigeria earns from crude oil and
gas sales, and what happened to 12 billion dollars
earned from domestic crude lifting; They are so
eager to cling to any straw of 'achievement' that
they are celebrating the revival of the locomotive
engine in the 21st century!
''Such is their insensitivity and total lack of
compassion for human beings that the Jonathan
administration will rather spend the nation's scarce
resources on importing animals for the villa zoo
and on purchasing presidential jets that they do
not need.
''Because this government has become numb to
reason, because this government has deteriorated
from cluelessness to hopelessness and because
this government has totally lost any sense of
direction, we say it is time for Nigerians to gird
their loins and join hands with all those who are
seeking genuine change. To adapt Mahatma
Gandhi's timeless quote, Nigerians must be the
change they wish to see in their country, and the
year 2014 must be our Year of Change!'' APC said.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed
Interim National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)
Lagos, Dec. 31st 2013

Is it not the same Obj who took the greater part of the 14yrs that those 1diots went and solicited his support? By the way, are most of them not part of the wasted years? Unrepentant and incurable foools

Idi Amin: Is it not the same Obj who took the greater part of the 14yrs that those 1diots went and solicited his support? By the way, are most of them not part of the wasted years? Unrepentant and incurable foools

Couldn't have said it better...these guys appear too desperate. I hope personal interest would not tear the party apart...

When APC met Obj recently, Tinubu asked Obj to help navigate Nigeria. Imagine Obj continueing to rule under the banner of Apc.
Gej did well by cutting the apron strings to Obj.

A vote for APC is a vote for OBJ.

No resonable coment so far,only noise from the jobless pdp touts,bunch of retar.ds