Okogie queries Buhari's government over 2015 campaign promises

Okogie queries Buhari's government over 2015 campaign promises

- The Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos Archdiocese, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, is not happy with the federal government for not fulfilling the promises it made to Nigerians

- Okogie stated that life is becoming harder for Nigerians despite the promises the Buhari-led administration made to them in 2015

- He also decried the political activities that have been taken place in preparation for 2019

The Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos Archdiocese, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, has berated the federal government for its unfulfilled promises.

Okogie, 81, stated that life is becoming harder for Nigerians despite the promises made to them in 2015 by the current administration.

The revered cleric made the assertion in an article titled: ‘The Truth and Nothing But the Truth,’ sent to The Punch on Tuesday, November 28.

Okogie queries Buhari's government over 2015 campaign promises
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“With very few exceptions, they are power mongers pretending to be leaders, parasites posturing as benefactors.

“Endemic to our political class is an addiction to power, a chronic deficiency of desire to serve. It is becoming clearer that, for our politicians, being in power takes precedence over service to the people.

“In another sad reminder that they care less for the people, they are not engaged in discussions on how to alleviate the suffering of the masses, suffering visited on the people by the incompetent leadership of this country,” he wrote.

The Edo state born cleric however charged Nigerian citizens to be responsible for the country, adding that Nigerian politicians benefit from a system that places the citizen at a disadvantage.

His words: “We must put some questions to our politicians. We must insist on credible answers to a number of pertinent questions.

“A government that is more powerful than the people is not accountable to the people. It does not consider transparency a sacred obligation. That is the situation as we write. Our government is not accountable to the people.

"Even when government functionaries are invited to the National Assembly to answer some questions, they arrogantly fail to honour the invitation. And they get away with such insolence! But that is not what we need in Nigeria. For in a veritable democracy, the government is at the service of the citizen. Such is the profound significance of going to the polls.

“The citizen hires his president, governor, senator, etc. If the people are not satisfied with their performance, those they hired are fired at the polls. But that remains a tall dream in Nigeria where, precisely because those we hire are more powerful than their employers, they are in a position to perpetuate themselves in office through an electoral process whose integrity exists only in the breach."

He called for all all who want to contest in the 2019 elections to go through due process within their parties.

According to him, when they would have been duly nominated to contest, they must see it as a moral obligation to participate in nationally televised debates.

Okogie had on Friday, September, 29 argued that Nigeria would be worse off should President Muhammadu Buhari get a second term in office.

The cardinal who made the statement in a telephone interview with a national newspaper, said Buhari’s performance so far had been below the average mark, which does not support the calls for his second term.

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