The Chairman, People Democratic Party, South Africa Chapter, Hon Ekos Akpokabayen have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to reconstitute her economic team with suitable and competent hands so that a favourable economic policy can be initiated to take Nigeria swiftly away from its presence economic recession.
Akpokabayen said this in a statement issued to The Nation while baring his mind in the present economic hardship Nigerians are still facing two years down the line since the APC team took over the leadership of the government. He said that the need for a competent economic management team that will salvage the country from its harsh economic conditions is very urgent and imperative for development.
He said that hunger, starvation, hopelessness, fear of the unknown and lack of livelihood security have completely overtaken our people’s mindset, that strong survival tendencies we were known for have been totally defeated as a result of the inability and insincerity of the government of the day to provide any visible sign of the promised better tomorrow.
Akpokabayen noted that it is disappointing and disheartening that Nigerians are fast getting used to suffering and a kind of life that is alien to our national standards as a people.
He said ‘it plagues my heart each time I look back to where we are coming from, only about 27 months ago, how the once acclaimed happiest people on the planet earth have slowly and eventually lost out in the hope race which is glaringly evident in the current spate of both reported and unreported cases of suicide in the country’.
He opined that the present government have enjoyed the support and patience of Nigerians in the last two years, yet no hope in sight due to the hard hearing and adamant nature of the APC government in reconstituting her economic team with suitable and competent hands so that a better and favourable economic policies could be initiated as quickly as possible to salvage the swift drift to record-breaking irrecoverable recession the world have ever witnessed.
Akpokabayen went further to call on the warring faction in the PDP to do all that is possible to sustain the current effort of the reconciliation committee headed by Governor Seriaki Dickson of Bayelsa State, stated that nothing on earth is 100% perfect but if at all, we are able to get up to 60% of what could enthrone peace and restore a lasting unity in the party from this committee.
”We must please embrace it and bring back our virtues as a formidable political party, now in the opposition for the sakes of the good people of Nigeria whose choices are now highly predictable that the best they could wish for now is a brighter, true and all-inclusive change which only the PDP offered and can still offer come 2019”.
He added that party faithful should come back and much better than they have ever so that they can take up this challenge of a Rescue Mission which our beloved people of Nigeria are sincerely yearning for and restore their hopes and before it is too late.