We, not angels, will fix Nigeria

A former member of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Moh. Lukman has said only Nigerians and not angels that can change the national trajectory, address and remedy the current challenges facing the country.

He gave this charge in his New Year statement, titled: “Political competition should define New Nigeria” in Abuja.

Expressing optimism the country will rise again, the former APC National Vice Chairman, North West enjoined Nigerians as the new year begins to believe in the country and exhibit positive tendency towards her development.

According to Lukman: “As we enter 2025, and as Nigerians, we need to ask ourselves the fundamental question of what is it that we must do to begin to turn things around? The simple but also very difficult answer is that we should as Nigerians believe in ourselves in a positive way.

“Nigerians must remind themselves about the power of possibility and once again seek to engage leaders with a positive mindset. Engaging leaders with a positive mindset should be about emphatically calling on leaders to be responsive to the needs of citizens.”

The former Director General of Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) maintained: “the hard truth is that Nigeria’s challenges can only be addressed by Nigerians. It will not be angels that will descend from heaven to help us resolve our challenges.”

He added: “The other hard truth is that we all have our good and bad sides. So also, our politicians have their good and bad sides. The unfortunate reality is that our political structures now only make it possible for politicians to present their negative sides, which is largely because political competition is completely compromised.”

The former APC chieftain further charged: “Nigerians need to move into 2025 with a positive disposition that it is indeed possible to produce a new political reality in the country.” Adding that, “we need to all wake up and seek to take our destiny in our own hands.”