A presidential aspirant on the platform of
National Rescue Movement Party of Nigeria, Mr. Usman Ibrahim Alhaji, has scored
President Muhammadu Buhari low in the fight against corruption and advised him
to strengthen institutions to fight corruption, adding that the government
cannot fight corruption without strong structures.
He also called on the old politicians to quite the
stage for the younger ones.
"Sincerely, if I am to assess the present
administration on fighting corruption, I'll only give them 40 percent. My reason is
that we cannot fight corruption without strengthen the institutions,’’he
stated in an interview with THISDAY which was made available to Yellowstone Media in Lagos on Sunday.
According to him, "You have to strengthen the judicial institution,
the Police that are prosecuting and you have to also strengthen the media to
give you investigative journalism; because the media has a great role to play
in reporting corruption cases.’’
An indigene of Marafakka, Kalgo Local Government
Area of Kebbi State and graduate of Bayero University Kano, Alhaja stated
that Nigerians are looking for a generational change in the leadership of the
country as the current crop of leaders are between 70 and 80 years.
He said when he was growing up he was told that
they were the leaders of tomorrow, but said that till date, ‘’tomorrow’’ had
not come.
According to him, "We are looking for
generational change; when you look at the leaders we have today most of them
are around 70 and 80 years; and when we were young they always say we were the
leaders of tomorrow; and we don't know when the tomorrow will come.
‘’This gave us courage to ask them that haven
invested so much in us, by going to school and teaching us how to fish, now is
the time to allow us to demonstrate the skills we have learnt and they can
stand somewhere and correct us when we go wrong."
Reflecting on the state of the nation, he added
that there are some politicians who want to divide the nation for their own
selfish political and economic interests, saying the huge poverty in Nigeria
today does not know whether ‘’you are a Christian or a Muslim.’’
He asked, ‘’Does poverty know tribe?; it is a
strategy by the politicians; and that is why we are telling them to go and sit
down and lets inject new blood and then we move forward.’’
According to Mr. Alhaji, lack the lack of positive
impact of democracy on the citizenry and the failure of the two dominant
political parties gave him the motivation to come out to vie for the office of
the president of the of Nigeria.
"The two dominant parties have failed this
country. That is one convention, and I believe Nigerians have good memories and
they are now saying neither PDP nor APC. And what Nigerians want now is rescue
and that what the National Rescue Movement Party is out to do,’’ he explained.
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