The ex-governor, in a statement
captioned: ‘A Return to Decency’,
which was issued on Monday in Lagos,
said the several years of misrule by
successive Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, presidents had continued to sink the country into further crisis. APC Tinubu, who is a national leader of the
All Progressives Congress, APC, tagged
the 16 years of PDP rule in the country
as a period of steady decline into
disaster. Bola Ahmed Tinubu The APC leader hinted that the longer the
PDP continue to stay in power, the less
benefit Nigerians would get. He stated
that the country needs a ‘common
sense revolution,’ which he explained
as a revolution that calls forth a return to decency, probity, transparency of
process and fairness in outcome. According to him, such revolution could
only been accomplished by honouring
the principles of democratic good
governance and economic justice, and
not by deception, divide and rule that
would turn Nigeria into a field of discord or a street of broken institutions. He said
the revolution would be executed by
making the people understand they are
better off as one instead of tearing at
one another’s throats. “Nigerians should be prepared for
change. We must rescue Nigeria from
those set to cause it irreparable harm.
The change I talk about is the only route
to our deliverance from 16 years of the
PDP locusts. Nigeria is ours to keep and its democracy is ours to save,” he said. The former governor also called on
Nigerians to use this year’s
Independence Day to reflect on the state
of the nation because other countries
that had their Independence almost the
same with Nigeria have far outshined us. He said the Nigeria of today is like a
nightmare to its founding fathers. Tinubu, who further blasted the PDP-led
government, accused them of using
religion to cause disunity among the
people. “We commemorate this Independence
Day because the nation has survived
despite its many challenges. We dare
not celebrate because the nation has not
flourished as it should. Fifty four years
our national trek began with hope and promise, peace and unity. “Today, the nation staggers beneath
the weight of trouble multiplied by
hardship. Peace and unity seem to have
yielded the moment to violence and
discord. We exist as a political unit on a
map but we do not prosper as brothers and sisters in one nation, under one flag
and pursuant to one accord,” Tinubu
said. The APC chieftain alleged that President
Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation
agenda was an avenue to drain the
country financially through unscrupulous
means. He accused the presidency of
not having a national blueprint or vision, but of excessive self-enrichment. “Their equation is simple: You work,
they feast. You toil, they grow fat. You
seek a decent wage; they pilfer the
collective treasury to enjoy a king’s
ransom,” he said. READ ALSO: What Tinubu Has To Say About His Health Tinubu further alleged that, instead of
the PDP-led government to promote
religious tolerance and peaceful
existence, President Jonathan’s
administration is geared towards
promoting ethnicism, internal divisions and religious suspicion, saying;
“successful nations are not built this
way, have we not learned the lesson
that we paid the high price of civil war to
learn.” Meanwhile, the former Governor of
Lagos State and national leader of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Bola
Tinubu on September 18, 2014, returned to the country after a prolonged alleged
medical trip abroad.
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