Olusegun Dada: Of the kindergarten presidency and the APC (Y! Politico)

by Olusegun Dada

Dada Olusegun

The Presidency and his attack dogs should focus on reducing poverty, fighting malnutrition, insecurity and unemployment in the less than two years it has left in the presidency rather than distract the in-coming government.

For a while now, I have noticed with disgust, the level at which the current occupant of Nigeria’s highest office has degenerated the office of the presidency. Never in the history of Nigeria has the Presidency been so disgraced and truly reduced to something even worse than the kindergarten level.

Instead of the presidency focusing on the barrage of problems facing the citizenry, President Goodluck Jonathan and his retinue of attack dogs have continually unleashed verbal mayhem on well-meaning citizens, barking at every criticism (constructive or otherwise) thrown in the direction of the presidency for the good of the nation.

One would have thought the leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) would also be busy developing strategies and formulating policies that will restore Nigeria to its place in the committees of nations or at least marketing its detailed manifesto to citizens of the country. But no, they have chosen to exchange verbal insults with people who have failed a whole nation repeatedly for 14 years.

I want more than anything else for the APC to desist forthwith from being distracted by the worst party in Africa and concentrate in developing strategies that will lift Nigeria and Nigerians out of the political, social and economic casket that the PDP has put us in.

The APC needs to focus on this great responsibility they have been saddled with.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) just last week released a report, stating that poverty has increased in Nigeria. According to the report, “Nigeria’s prospect of halving poverty by 2015 seems weak. The proportion of people living below the national poverty line has worsened from 65.5 per cent in 1996 to 69.0 per cent in 2010.

The report also stated that “malnutrition is widespread. Rural areas and disadvantaged groups are particularly vulnerable to chronic food shortage and unbalanced nutrition. 41 per cent of Nigerian children are stunted, nine per cent wasted or thin and 23 per cent underweight.’’

It added that as at 2011, unemployment rate was at 24 per cent compared to 21 per cent in 2010, adding that the rate was high among the age bracket of between 15 and 24, and 25 to 44, at 38 per cent and 22 per cent, respectively.

The presidency and his attack dogs should focus on reducing poverty,
fighting malnutrition, insecurity and unemployment in the less than two years it has left in the presidency rather than distract the in-coming government.

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Comments (2)

  1. I really wanted to make a few constructive contributions to your article but the statement about “an incoming government” made my zeal to respond better calmed than join words with you. For your information, Nigeria under the present government is better than your tribal incoming government which can not see the light of day. PDP might not be the unique antidote for Nigerians at the moment but the worst PDP government will do better than APC, Lagos state and its mode of governance can attest to this fact. I rest my case.

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