Ganduje: Tinubu Equal to Reform Nigeria’s System of Governance, Economy 

Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdulahi Ganduje, has said that President Bola Tinubu has the capacity to reform the country’s system of governance and the economy that will take Nigeria to the next level.

Ganduje stated this Thursday  when South West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA) led by Senator Dayo Adeyeye paid him a courtesy visit at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja.

He commended SWAGA for the role it played in ensuring that the Tinubu Presidency became a reality.

Ganduje said: “If you want to start a journey you must start with preparedness, and I think you started this journey with preparedness because you were committed; you have common ideas leading to a kind of philosophy or a kind of ideology to achieve an objective.

“I think that is a very good starting point, because once you start something, you must have an objective, you must have a target, a timeframe and how to do it, and must know you are committed you must do it.”

The chairman said they are happy today because they were able to realize their objective after working so hard.

Ganduje added: “When you said you formed this association — this group — not to your knowledge, some of us started it in the heart even before explaining it to others to know, because when you like something when you love something, it starts from the heart.

“Sometimes you even suffer because people don’t understand you. But we believe our principal is the right principal, he is the man that we have been yearning to mount the leadership of this country and we have succeeded in doing that.

“You have to assess people for where they come from, you have to assess people from their disposition, to assess people from their curricula vitae not some people from the blues. Nigeria is bigger than that.

“So, we believe Asiwaju is a man of institutions, he believes in developing institutions and by developing institutions that is why you have sustainability.”

Ganduje noted that Lagos State has a high degree of sustainability, adding that the high degree of sustainability was not because Tinubu was the governor about 20 years ago, but rather he developed institutions, and laid the foundation for sustainability for Lagos.

His words: “Lagos is a great state, not only in Nigeria but in Africa. So we want a replica, we want a mirror image of that kind of sustainability for Nigeria.

“And we believe Asiwaju is equal to the task, he will reform our system, reform the system of governance, reform the institutions, reform the economy and all other social issues that will take Nigeria to the next level.”

Ganduje stressed that they believed Tinubu would leave a big mark of change in Nigeria.

Earlier, Adeyeye congratulated Ganduje and the National Secretary of the party, Senator Ajibola Bashir, for their emergence and pledged their support to the new leaders.