By Ikenna Osuoha
An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Chief Sam Onuigbo, says the inclusion of top politicians from the opposition party into the party’s Presidential Campaign Council is in order.
The FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, (PDP) governors, Chukwuma Soludo (APGA) and Ademola Adeleke (Accord) of Anambra and Osun have been appointed into President Bola Tinubu’s campaign team.
Onuigbo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja that the trio were strong supporters of President Bola Tinubu’s administration hence their merited appointment to work for his re-election.
Onuigbo represented Ikwuano/Umuahia North and South Federal Constituency in the 8th and 9th Assembly.
The APC chieftain said the appointment was a function of democratic alliance forged out of solidarity for administrative excellence by President Tinubu.
He explained that some members of opposition parties passionately joined the campaign team for continuous happiness of the Nigerians which he described as the essence of democracy.
“Democracy is a system of government that does not use force of the barrel or the gun ,but applies consensual and understanding.
“The bottom line is having a good government that works to provide the highest happiness for the highest number of people which Wike and others have seen and aligned with,” Onuigbo said.
He, therefore, said that the inclusion of some members of the opposition in the APC presidential campaign team was not only commendable but a reflection of democracy in action.
Onuigbo scored Tinubu high in the areas of economy and reforms such as the students loan scheme, Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), the harmonisation of exchange rate and the removal of fuel subsidy.
He said the fuel subsidy removal had produced additional resources for the Federal Government and sub-national governments to deploy in delivering dividends of democracy to the citizenry.
“Tinubu has placed Nigeria on the path of prosperity with increase in GDP, where the GDP is now out-pacing the nation’s population rate.
“From refining 30,000 barrels of oil per day in 2023, Nigeria now refines over 700,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
“Nigeria’s foreign reserves has now hit over 58.1 billion dollars from 3.9 billion dollars in 2023,” he told NAN.
He said there was also the Nigerian Consumer Credit Corporation established to democratise access to consumer credit for Nigeria’s working population.
He said those improvements in the economy had been economy as acknowledged by global financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Onuigbo reiterated his confidence in the preparedness of Tinubu to enhance Nigeria’s place in the comity of nations if re-elected.
He commended Tinubu and Wike for the infrastructure milestone in Abuja, saying that the APC -led federal government has rescued the federal capital from the doldrums of infrastructure deficit. (NAN)
Edited by Uche Anunne
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