SAN FRANCISCO, November 30, (THEWILL) – The National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has stated that the party is not about himself, General Muhammadu Buhari or any other leader but about the nation and the need and commitment to rescue Nigeria from inept leadership.
Tinubu stated this in Abuja on Friday while responding to a question about the significance of the five former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors who recently defected to the APC and the implications for Nigeria .
“The APC is not about Tinubu, Buhari or any of its leaders. It is about the nation and how we can come together and work together to rescue Nigeria from inept leadership. The implication is change.
“We want to change the way things are done by working together and investing our ideas. We must change the way we do things. Imagine from the 60’s till date. The cutlass of the 60s cannot be used for farming now. We need leaders that can think outside the box,” he said.
Tunubu, who spoke at the 2012/2013 Call to Bar ceremony of the Nigeria Law School in Abuja, said: “Nigeria needs a democratic revolution that will unleash infrastructural development and massive industrialisation. Nigeria is a blessed nation with talented youth, whose potentials must be harnessed for the development of our country. The lamentations must stop. After so many years of lamentation, with action we must lead the new resolve to rally for the much needed change our country badly needs,” Tinubu said.
He flayed the posture of the government to the continued strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU), saying the country should be more concerned about losing more brains to the outside world.
“We are not in a military era. The language used shows a government that is out of tune with the general feelings of Nigerians. Nigeria cannot continue to afford to lose her best brains to the diaspora,” he said .
