Former President Obasanjo Wednesday said it is uncharitable, fussy and
uninstructive of this present administration to continuously castigate
the administrations before it. Obasanjo said this while delivering his
keynote address at the first Akintola Williams Annual Lecture held in
Lagos yesterday November 23rd. He said:
“The blanket adverse comments or castigation of all democratic
administrations from 1999 by the present administration is uncharitable,
fussy and uninstructive. Politics apart, I strongly believe that there
is a distinction between the three previous administrations that it
would be unfair to lump them all together.
I understand President Buhari’s frustration on the state of the economy
inherited by him. It was the same reason and situation that brought
about the cry for change, otherwise, there would be no need for change
if it was all nice and rosy. No administration can or should be
comfortable with the excruciating pain of debilitating and crushing
economy. Businesses are closing, jobs are being lost and people are
suffering.
I know that President Buhari has always expressed concern for the plight
of the common people but that concern must be translated to workable
and result-oriented socio-economic policy and programme that will turn
the economy around at the shortest time possible. We cannot continue to
do the same thing and expect things to change.
Now that we have had change because the actors and the situation needed
to be changed, let us move forward to have progress through a
comprehensive economic policy and programme that is intellectually,
strategically and philosophically based. It is easier to win an election
than to right the wrongs of a badly fouled situation.
When you are outside, what you see and know are nothing compared with
the reality. And yet once you are on seat, you have to clear the mess
and put the nation on the path of rectitude, development and progress
leaving no group or section out of your plan, programme and policy and
efforts. The longer it takes, the more intractable the problem may
become"he said
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