Minister of
Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has said that the APC government did not promise
to fix Nigeria’s problem within a year and cautioned those lamenting the
economic hardship to wait till 2019 for the desired change.
Also, the
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, cautioned Nigerians
against making statements that could cause religious disharmony, warning that
“no nation has ever survived religious war.”
The
ministers spoke in Ilorin, Kwara State, during a North Central town hall
meeting for the people of Kogi, Niger and Kwara states by the Federal
Government.
Amaechi said
though the Federal Government knows that things are difficult, Nigerians should
wait till the end of the four-year mandate given to the administration before
they can judge whether the government had performed or not.
According to
him, “We did not promise you that those challenges will be solved in one year
or you would have given us a one-year mandate. But you gave us four years
mandate, so wait till the end of four years before you can conclude that we
have not done well.”
While giving
stewardship of his ministry, the minister lamented that the refusal of the
National Assembly to approve the government’s borrowing plan from China was
drawing the government back, urging the people from the three states to prevail
on the National Assembly to approve the loan.
According to
him, if accessed, the loan would enable the government embark on the
rivatalisation of rail projects, which would create more jobs.
He said: “Go
and talk to your people in the National Assembly. They are the ones holding the
Federal Government back from improving on the infrastructure that would provide
mass employment for the people by stopping the President’s borrowing plan from
China. They are the ones frustrating our efforts.”
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