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National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, said that the future of the nation depended on the attitude of Nigerians towards choosing the kind of government that would rule them, saying that violence was not necessary to change Nigeria to a better nation.

The APC chairman spoke at the Trenchard Hall, University of Ibadan, while delivering the 2014 Alumni Lecture, organised by the University of Ibadan Alumni Association on Friday.

His lecture was titled, Nigeria, a trajectory of dashed expectation: Looking into the future with hope.

The APC chairman warned that until Nigerians moved away from the era of sycophancy, political irresponsibility, dishonesty, moral turpitude and betrayal of public trust, the nation might not realise its greatness in many years to come.

He said, I see very bright future for us all, but a lot depends on the Nigerian people, who continue to show docility and not being able to take their destinies in their own hands. Without any resort to violence, because that, to me, is defeatist, I do believe that we as a people can achieve so much through the ballot box by easing out that party who has held on to power for a decade-and-a- half and have not made any meaningful impact in our lives.

We in Nigeria today must begin to put an end to sycophancy and political acts of irresponsibility as is presently the case in Nigeria and begin to think deeply on how to develop our nation. And this is what we do in APC.

While it remains an obvious truth that Nigeria, 54 years after, is perceived and still behaves like a toddler, there is no doubt that the country has suffered stunted growth as a result of gross leadership failure. This is exemplified by our failure, as a people, to use our huge human and material resources to galvanise development in our country, this in spite of being a leading oil producing country in the world.

At the event, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, called on the executive arm of government not to misunderstand the legislative arm in its oversight functions of budgeting and appropriation of funds in order to ensure effective utilisation of the allocation.

Tambuwal commended the UI management for sustaining quality education in the country and asked Nigerians not to lose hope for a brighter and better country.

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