The All Progressives Congress, (APC) has said Nigeria is nowhere close to becoming a failed state, despite the doomsday wishes of those it called “naysayers and opposition partisans.
According to the Secretary of the Party’s Caretaker and Convention Planning Committee, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe, “The President Muhammadu Buhari government is not oblivious to the country’s challenges and is visibly and frontally addressing them”.
He said, “President Buhari’s administration which sees the urgent need to have a better policing system for the country and is embarking on sweeping police reforms and supporting community policing, is definitely not governing a country close to becoming a failed state.
“Amid the COVID-19 induced economic slowdown, President Buhari’s administration which is stimulating the economy by preventing business collapse; supporting labour-intensive sectors such as agriculture; creating jobs through infrastructural investments in roads, rails, bridges; promoting manufacturing and local production at all levels to attain self-sufficiency in critical sectors of the economy, is definitely not governing a country close to becoming a failed state.
“President Buhari’s administration which is implementing one of the world’s largest and far-reaching social investment programmes targeting the very poor and other vulnerable groups, including women and persons living with disabilities through pro-poor spending, is definitely not governing a country close to becoming a failed State.
“While the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) and their hirelings engage in their unfortunate and apparently orchestrated attacks on the Armed Forces and other security services, the APC will rather support their efforts and charge them to do more to further degrade the capacity of terrorists and other criminal elements to attack soft targets”, he stated.
