The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has called on Nigerians to ignore President Goodluck Jonathan's claim of having the political will to fulfil his election promises. CPC spokesman Rotimi Fashakin made the call yesterday in a statement, saying that the present administration started this year on a crude and perilous 49 percent increase of petrol pump price which unveiled the most bizarre consequences in national life in the over five decades' existence of Nigeria.
According to him, it is doubtful if the president believes that Nigerians can trust him on his words after many broken promises in the past one year.
"Indeed, this president and his forebears in the ruling behemoth have collectively mismanaged, in the last 13 years, the hopes of Nigerians and brought the nation into impecunious status through unprecedented corruption and profligacy. With N2.67 trillion and N1.05 trillion said to have been spent on fuel subsidy in 2011 and 2012 respectively, this administration has unwittingly created a bleeding pipe where the scarce resources of State are siphoned into private pockets of cronies and acolytes of the regime," CNPP alleges.
Daily Trust