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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has warned that progress would continue to elude Nigeria since the country has become a burial ground for unimplemented policies.
Obasanjo expressed worry that Nigeria appears to be taking one step forward and three steps backward due to leadership inability to implement policies.
The former president spoke at an event in Abuja yesterday.
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Obasanjo said Nigeria is not bereft of policies to achieve greatness but blamed leaders for the country’s lack of progress.
According to Obasanjo: “It is not enough for leaders to have policies or make statements. We are not short of policies in Nigeria.
“Unfortunately, Nigeria has become a burial ground of policies that are either unimplemented or unexecuted.
“Those who make progress achieved progress, not on the basis of wishing to make progress, but on taking actions. They do not take two steps forward and three steps backward.
“Regrettably this is what we are doing in every aspect of our national life. And as long as we are doing things this way, progress will elude us.”
In other news, The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Kaduna State has strongly refuted rumours asking party faithful to boycott today’s council elections in the 23 local government areas of the state.
The state chairman of the party, Edward Masha, said this in an interview with newsmen in Kafanchan, the headquarters of Jema’a Local Government Area, noting that the call for a boycott was neither made nor endorsed by his office.
He said, “while PDP agents at the SIECOM office in Kaduna were inspecting sensitive materials before distribution, it was noticed that one of the most sensitive materials, the result sheets, was not included, which was an anomaly.”
He further disclosed that two weeks ago, he had raised the alarm over plans by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to manipulate the elections by sneaking in a clause into the SIECOM election guidelines that would alter the process of announcing election results.
