{"id":3516,"date":"2013-05-11T21:26:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T21:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/buhari-nigeria-hopelessly-adrift\/"},"modified":"2013-05-11T21:26:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T21:26:45","slug":"buhari-nigeria-hopelessly-adrift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/buhari-nigeria-hopelessly-adrift\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari: Nigeria hopelessly adrift"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ayorinde Oluokun\/Abuja After reviewing the situation in many parts of the country, former military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari declared on Saturday that Nigeria is \u201chopelessly adrift\u201d with anarchy \u201cknocking on the door of many sections of this country\u201d.<\/p>\n While lamenting that the Federal government has not demonstrated that it has the good sense to understand what is going on, or the competence to check it, the Congress of Progressive Change, CPC 2011 Presidential Candidate urged the National Assembly to take the lead in devising how to bring solution to the circle of violence engulfing the different parts of the country.<\/p>\n Buhari spoke at the mid- term convention of CPC held to ratify the dissolution of the party into All Progressive Congress, APC, a merger being championed by the opposition in Nigeria as a stronger platform to confront the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on Saturday.<\/p>\n The former Military ruler described the CPC midterm convention as an historic moment for the nation with the coming together of several different political parties for the singular purpose of changing Nigeria for the better and stopping the mindless drift that has been going in the country for the last 14 years.<\/p>\n He also noted that many political analysts have long stated that the only way to stabilize the country is for opposition parties to merge and oust the ruling PDP. \u201cWe must understand and accept that we are here gathered to make history or forever stand accused and condemned by it.<\/p>\n We must seize this moment that calls for patriotism and sacrifice\u2014it is time to sacrifice everything\u2014time, resources, ambition and ego\u2014for the greater good. We should carry this process through to a successful conclusion, and leave our legacy and foot-prints on the history of Nigeria\u201d, said the former military President.<\/p>\n The former military Head of State also lamented that the President Goodluck Jonathan led PDP led government has failed has failed to secure the nation\u2019s internal environment with insecurity, spiraling lawlessness, widespread and rising poverty and unemployment across the length and breadth of the country.<\/p>\n He added that there has also been a complete and total decline in the quality of social services and an irremediable dilapidation in the nation\u2019s socio-economic infrastructure across board with the accompanying fall in the nation\u2019s standard of living and an astronomical rise in the standard of dying.<\/p>\n
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