The President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Lagos State chapter, Chief Solomon Aguene, has pleaded with Nigerians to back President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration
He expressed optimism that Tinubu would deliver on his campaign promises given his antecedents.
Aguene spoke to the Ohanaeze Secretariat in Surulere, Lagos.
He urged to the president-elect to run an inclusive government that would unite Nigerians while appealing for the immediate release of detained IPOB Leader Nnamdi Kanu to douse the tension in the Southeast.
“Nnamdi Kanu’s case is at the nub of Igbo interest. The young man is reportedly ill and needs medical attention. If the Buhari government fails to use Nnamdi Kanu’s bail as a valedictory gift to the Igbo, I appeal to the President-elect to grant him freedom on assumption of power as it’s the right thing to do since there is a subsisting Court ruling for his bail. Such action by Asiwaju Tinubu will be heroic and the Igbo will support his Government,” Aguene stated.
Chief Aguene said: “My advice to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is for him to work hard to justify his election. To this end, it’s profitable to anchor the strength of his government on inclusion rather than exclusion on the grounds of political patronage, ethnic or religious affiliations, but to treat Nigeria as his entire constituency, creating the enabling environment for the young and the old to actualize their potentials.
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“Asiwaju should focus more on youth empowerment and job creation to contain our restive youthful population. He may adopt the German approach to salvaging unemployment and job loss through a method called, Abate loss, where there is unemployment benefits and those who lose their jobs are paid a certain percentage of their salary until they secure a job.
“China’s application to contain frightening poverty ravaging their country may be useful to us at this material time as the nation has not escaped the categorization as the world poverty capital.
“Housing is a very big problem in the country, Chief Lateef Jakande, former Governor of Lagos State’s approach of building low cost houses, affordable and probably in the neighborhood of not more than N1m selling price may be integrated into the national housing scheme. This will spring life to the middle-class and low-income earners asphyxiating under the yoke of an economic downturn.