Jonathan, PDP have run out of steam, says APC

Chief John Odigie Oyegun, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, believes that it is time that Nigerians vote in a new party with fresh ideas, noting that, that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led federal government has lost steam in taking Nigeria to where it should be as a nation.

Oyegun made the clarification on Monday in Benin shortly after he received a delegation from the Izon-Ibe Global Policy Network (IGPN). He reassured Nigerians that the opposition was ready and working to win next year’s presidential election.

“The issues facing our nation, really are that, we are now saddled with a party and with a President who are totally running out of steam. There is no question about that, no question, they have run out of ideas.

“Everything that is going on today and the vulgarity of the campaigns that are going on today whether it is TAN, Peoples Defending Our Posterity and all sorts of things, gives us just that singular impression of a party that has reached the end of the road, knows that it has reached the end of the road, knows that it has nothing else to offer but knows that it has so much to hide,” Oyegun said.

He expressed worry that 54 years after independence, Nigeria was still at cross roads with a disillusioned army of youths.

“When people ask me why I am still worried with what I am doing, I tell them quite frankly that this nation has been very good to me. I enjoyed my youth, I enjoyed my adolescence, my growing up and I enjoyed the process of going through education; things were good and it is not that we are falling on hard times, we have even enough better than they were in my time.

At the end of every month I go to the bursary and get my allowance. I was able to live relatively stress free student life when things, resource-wise were not as available as they are now. So the question I ask myself is why? Things cannot ever be okay like it was totally in the past but should things have to be as bad as they are today? That is the question you are asking yourselves, which is the question you are struggling to find answers to and I do compliment you.

“I am a South-Southerner, I was a national president of the South-South Peoples Assembly and for a long time we struggled to be of help to the administration. As a matter of fact, in one of our conferences somebody from our area came out with a beautiful paper which we gladly adopted and it was titled ‘Mr. President, Just Get it done’; and that one told us the whole story of what was going on in peoples mind, his own people, south-south. We know what the problems are, we know where the issues are, we have the resources to address them; why are we not addressing these issues and why are we not addressing these problems?,” Oyegun quizzed.