Nigeria’s Problems Can’t Be Solved In A Day – APC

President Muhammadu Buhari on
Tuesday met behind closed doors with
members of the National Working
Committee of the All Progressives
Congress inside the Defence House,
Maitama, Abuja.
The President’s guests were led to the
meeting by the party’s National
Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.
Odigie-Oyegun later told journalists that
they decided to embark on the visit in
order to pledge their loyalty to the
President and express their
determination to work with him through
thick and thin.
He said Buhari could always depend on
the party which he used as a platform to
become the President.
Odigie-Oyegun added that the party
noted the fact that Nigerians’
expectations were extremely high and
that the public expects a totally new
dawn.
He said, “On that note, we told him we
are with him and that he will succeed
because the entire party will be
galvanised as one man behind him to
ensure that days into this Presidency that
Nigerians will indeed see that things are
changing.
“All the problems cannot be solved in
one day but what Nigerians want is to be
sure that we are getting it right and that
we are on the proper path towards
addressing their long frustration towards
ameliorating their condition and that is
what they will get.”
The party boss said they had frank
discussions and the President was
appreciative of their declaration of
support.
He added that Buhari briefed the party
chiefs on one or two issues and they
were quite pleased with the way things
were going.
On how long Nigerians would have to
wait for the list of ministerial nominees,
Odigie-Oyegun said, “All I can say is that
Mr. President is committed to carrying
the party along in everything that he
does and we are very grateful for that.
“He has always been like that, he has put
the party in the front burner in all the
things he does at all times and he has
continued to do that.”
When asked to comment on the criticism
trailing the decision of the President to
declare his assets privately contrary to
his electoral promise, the APC chairman
said only Buhari himself could answer
the question.
He however expressed the belief that the
process leading to the election of
principal officers of the National
Assembly would not lead to crisis.
“There will be no crisis. I want to give
you that assurance. We are very
conscious of the fact that the National
Assembly is a separate arm of
government and the constitution
provides that they are the ones
responsible for electing their own
officers, all we have to do is provide for
them a conducive environment of doing
just that,” he said.
On security, Odigie-Oyegun said the
issue kept recurring during
electioneering, saying that the insurgents
were only trying to test the President’s
resolve.
He expressed belief that they (the
insurgents) would soon be defeated.
“There is nothing like lives, he was
elected to protect Nigerian lives and that
is even his first priority,” he added.