Abuja - As 2013 draws to an end,
the opposition All Progressive
Congress described the year as
the “worst” for citizens.
Interim National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
felt for the citizenry, which the
government he said had
pauperized and dehumanized amid an unprecedented fall in the
standard of living.
“They say President Goodluck
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 US$ 12 billion 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,” said Mohammed.
Such is the alleged insensitivity
and “total lack of compassion” for
human beings that the Jonathan
administration would reportedly
spend the nation's scarce
resources on importing animals
for the villa zoo and on purchasing
presidential jets that they do not
need, argued Mohammed.
“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!'' Mohammed said.
– CAJ News
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