Evil forces are frustrating Buhari's efforts - National Chairman (APC) - Odigie Oyegun

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Con­gress (APC), Chief John Od­igie-Oyegun, has fingered evil forces and economic saboteurs as working against the efforts of President Mu­hammadu Buhari to move the coun­try out of the despondency.

 

Odigie-Oyegun also took up critics of the Buhari’s frequent over­seas trips, especially Ekiti State Gov­ernor Ayodele Fayose. Odigie-Oye­gun said the actors were displaying a high level of insensitivity and ig­norance of the issues affecting the country.

 

Fielding questions from news­men in Benin, the Edo State capital, at the weekend, Odigie-Oyegun as­serted that despite the opposition, President Buhari won the 2015 pres­idential election on the basis of his personal credentials, experience and the respect he commands not only in the country but across the world, adding that the President is on a mis­sion to rescue the country from her present socio-political and econom­ic challenges.

 

According to Odigie-Oyegun,“forces of darkness and econom­ic saboteurs opposed to the nation’s growth and development are bent on frustrating the efforts of the APC-led administration under President Bu­hari in his determination to rescue the polity from the ongoing fuel crisis and to revitalise the ailing economy.”

 

Governor Fayose had last week allegedly written a letter to the Chi­nese government asking it to shun President Buhari’s proposal to se­cure about $6 billion loan for Nigeria.

 

Odigie-Oyegun said: “I hope Fayose did not really do what we are told he did. I don’t think even he will descend into this low depth but if he did I feel sorry for him and the people of his state. Nigerians should ask Fay­ose: what was he doing in China? An­yway, we are not bothered, the Pres­ident is not bothered. A man who could put his father in his car boot – what do you expect from him?’’

The APC national chairman ex­plained that, “Everything Buhari has done including the foreign tours are to garner all the support needed to make a dramatic impact on the liv­ing conditions of Nigerians as soon as possible.’’

 

Odigie-Oyegun stated that in a situation “where the world has be­come a global village, where rapid revival depends on the understand­ing of the rest of the world, the Pres­ident has taken his prestige and time around the world to polish our image which had been badly damaged in or­der to make it possible for world lead­ers to want to deal with a new Nigeria and to get the type of resources and the expertise that we dearly need.”

 

He added that, “because the kind of problems we have are not the types that we can wait for one or three years to solve; we do not have the resourc­es to revive the economy; so what the President is doing has grave incon­veniences to his person. Don’t for­get that he was a military officer, he trained abroad and he had been to most parts of the world, so, it is not as if he is deriving joy in spending sleep­less nights moving from one country to another.”