{"id":8115,"date":"2013-08-10T22:39:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T22:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/akande-flays-jonathans-leadership-style-2\/"},"modified":"2013-08-10T22:39:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T22:39:44","slug":"akande-flays-jonathans-leadership-style-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/akande-flays-jonathans-leadership-style-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Akande Flays Jonathan\u2019s Leadership Style"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE Interim National Chairman of the newly-registered All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, Saturday, reflected on the challenges facing the country, noting that President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s leadership style has worsen the situation. He condemned what he described as the President\u2019s lackadaisical attitude to serious national issues.<\/p>\n

   Akande accused Jonathan of turning down quality counsels well-meaning Nigerians, including himself, have given him. He said the President instead pre-occupies himself the 2015 agenda.<\/p>\n

   The APC leader, who spoke with journalist at his country home (Ila Orangun), in Osun State, said he had engaged Jonathan on serious national issues bordering on development but the President rebuffed the gestures. <\/p>\n

   He advised the President to forget his ambition to continue in office beyond 2015, insisting that APC is waiting to take over power through lawful and democratic means. When that happens, he said, the country will get have access good governance that is currently lacking.<\/p>\n

   His words: \u201cJonathan has not taken national issues seriously; he is more concerned about his third-term… By his attitude, he has succeeded in reducing Nigeria to kindergarten governance.\u201d<\/p>\n

  Akande noted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cannot address the challenges facing the country while urging the people to reject the party in 2015. <\/p>\n

  Describing the PDP as a reactionary force, he said Jonathan has trivialised his office as President because \u201che sends the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after his perceived opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n

   Akande said the priority of the party is to embark on massive mobilisation and registration of members across the country to give the party a strong structure that would kick PDP out of office in 2015.<\/p>\n

   \u201cPDP has expired because Nigerians are tired. I am happy that a credible and reliable party in APC is waiting as an alternative to the ruling party, which has not moved the country forward since 1999 it has been in control at the centre.<\/p>\n

  \u201cWe have overcome the challenge of registration; our next preoccupation is registration of members across the country. How to pick candidates for political positions would be decided in future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

   He said the uproar that greeted the registration of APC and its geographical spread are enough signals that the days of PDP are numbered.<\/p>\n

   He said the party would adopt high internal democracy to remain united ahead the 2015 elections.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the party\u2019s deputy National Secretary and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has also accused Jonathan of using ethnicity and religion to divide the electorates ahead the 2015 Presidential poll.<\/p>\n

   El-Rufai, however, said the tactic would fail the President because Nigerians are now wiser and cannot be deceived. He said the people willjudge who they will vote by measure of performance and track records.  <\/p>\n

 The APC chieftain spoke yesterday, as a guest at a private radio station, Liberty Radio, Kaduna.<\/p>\n

  He said the present campaign by some Ijaw leaders, including chief Edwin Clark and Asari Dokubo, has proved that President Jonathan and his supporters have reduced the Presidency to ethnic and religious issue.<\/p>\n

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