Adamu Waziri, a former member of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of subjecting Nigerians to hardship over the past two years.
Waziri, a member of the African Democratic Alliance the opposition coalition’s platform expressed this view on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Friday, emphasizing that Nigeria cannot advance without effective leadership.
“We are asking for Nigerians to give us three months. The Bola Tinubu administration is asking for Nigerians to give it another two years.
“What are the records? The two years of Bola Tinubu have inflicted severe pain on Nigeria,” the former Minister of Police Affairs said.
“That’s why some are saying that if you give it another two years, it will be a catastrophe. So, if you are ready to wait for two years, we are saying don’t wait for two years. Give us the next two years so that we can change this country,” he added.
Waziri stated that the ruling All Progressives Congress government would be removed through democratic means, rejecting any suggestions of plans to overthrow Tinubu’s administration.
He stated, “If I have the democratic means to remove this government tomorrow, I will move this government. But I don’t have that, which means I have to wait for two years to do so.
“We are not toppling this government. We are going to democratically remove this government. It is cheap blackmail to say people are planning to oust this government.
“No, we are challenging this government on the democratic process and to remove it. If I can do that, if there is a way that constitutionality and democracy allow us to remove this government tomorrow, we will do it.”
The former minister said nobody other than Nigerians can turn around the fortunes of the country and save it from its current state, which he described as a “catastrophe of enormous proportion”.
He noted that prominent members of the ADC including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; ex-Anambra State governor Peter Obi; former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai; as well as former governors of Rivers and Osun States, Rotimi Amaechi and Rauf Aregbesola are capable leaders with proven records of service who would greatly benefit both the party and the public.
It said the ADC would reverse a “couple of things” that the APC administration inflicted on Nigerians.
“What we have now is the negativity of all those good things we are expecting from a democratic leadership.
“Therefore, I am championing, among other patriotic Nigerians, to pursue the past whereby come 2027, the current leadership of Nigeria will be replaced by a more competent, more nationalistic, less corrupt, less tribalistic, less nepotic person to bring some measure of hope and good governance in Nigeria,” he added.
“On the issue of zoning and calls for the South to complete its eight years at the presidency, he said such talks would not take Nigeria anywhere.
“I desist from reducing myself to North and South politics. I am for a Nigerian who will bring about some cohesion, who will stamp out corruption, who will penalise corrupt practices, who will not be nepotic, who will redress the economic hardship Nigerians are facing,” he added.
