By Abdallah el-Kurebe
Nigeria is directionless. There are no pilots, there’s no autopilot. Everybody is on his own. Even the government is being run as if there is no one in control.
Sokoto state governor and chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum, Aminu Tambuwal has said that President Muhammadu Buhari and his political party, All Progressives Congress (APC), have rendered Nigeria directionless.
Speaking while inaugurating the New Yenagoa City bridge, which links the new Yenagoa City on Saturday, Tambuwal also said the current situation in the country had made makes Nigerians feel the absence of government.
According to the presidential aspirant of the PDP, the government at the centre was being ran like no one in in charge.
While maintained that the PDP has people with the capacity, experience and managerial skills to steer the ship of the country to safety, Tambuwal called on all leaders of the party, patriots and stakeholders across the country, to work together to rescue the country from the brinks of collapse.
“So many people are making this mistake of saying that Nigeria is on autopilot. If an aircraft is on autopilot you are sure of safety; you are sure of direction, you are sure of even possible landing because there is technological control.
“That is not the situation in Nigeria today. Nigeria is directionless. There are no pilots, there’s no autopilot. Everybody is on his own. Even the government is being run as if there is no one in control.
“That is the reason we have been talking to ourselves in our party and reaching out to other well-meaning patriots to come together to rescue this country and re-build it.
“We are in such a state that we are in distress and we need every hand from within and from our friends. There is insecurity, economic woes and bad leadership. No state is spared from insecurity. No part of this country is safe and secure at the moment.
“In this present situation in our country, you can’t be talking about investment and development. You have to establish peace before talking about rebuilding the country,” he said.
