BY GODWIN OBI
As Nigerians continue to react to the news of the Port Harcourt Refinery coming alive and ready for production, the former commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State, Mr Jonathan Vatsa, has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for keeping his promise to Nigerians.
Vatsa said the news about the refinery after many years of fruitless efforts by successive administration is a great relief to Nigerians, saying, “The President promised December for the take off the refinery and he has fulfilled it.”
The former publicity secretary of the APC in the state in a statement in Minna yesterday titled “Let Nigerians Keep Faith with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Renewed Hope Agenda” said that the president had fulfilled one of the major campaign promises of his administration and therefore urged Nigerians to keep with the government.
Vatsa pointed out that Nigerians were sceptical about the realization of the December deadline given by the President for the Port Harcourt Refinery because “we were just coming out of eight years of failed promises of former President Muhammadu Buhari.”
According to him the current hardship in the country was as a result of the removal of the fuel subsidy occasioned by the inability of the country to refine its crude oil, adding, “It is highly regrettable that as the sixth largest producer of crude oil in the world, Nigeria could not boast of a functional refinery.
“It is sad that a President who promised Nigerians one refinery every year of his administration and publicly told the world that payment of fuel subsidy was a scam finished his eight years tenure without a single refinery, and equally ended up paying the highest fuel subsidy in the history of Nigeria.
“That is why we must commend President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and keep faith with his administration’s renewed hope agenda”,
He added that what defines a good government in a democracy is it ability to keep its campaign promises with the electorate, stressing, “that is what President Tinubu has done.”
The Special Adviser to the Niger State Governor on Public Private Partnership (PPP) while urging the President to turn his searchlight to the Kaduna and Warri refineries, warned that the government must be wary of saboteurs who never want anything to work in the country.
These saboteurs, he claimed, are agents of the Western world who are ready to do anything to ensure that the country remains underdeveloped and continues to rely on foreign aids in the mix of abundant human and natural resources.
The outspoken APC Chieftain insisted that the current political and economic predicaments of the country could not be entirely blamed on the leaders, stressing, “after our independence they (West) have continued to manipulate our leaders and ensuring that we do not develop our enormous resources.”
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2023-12-24
