WHY APC CANT FULFILL ITS PROMISES

Embattled National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has revealed five reasons why his party has been unable to fulfill any of its campaign promises, 10 months after its inauguration in May 2015.

Speaking in the London in United Kingdom Oyegun at the first summit of the United Kingdom chapter of the APC, he reaffirmed his party's commitment to fulfilling all the promises it made to Nigerians in the build up to the 2015 General elections.

The summit, with the theme “Sustainable Development in Nigeria,” was chaired by Richard Fuller, member of the British Parliament for Bedford and Kempton, and the Vice Chair, All Parties Parliamentary Group (APPG) – Nigeria, was attended by members of APC across the UK, the party’s representatives from the Scandinavia and the invited British guests.

According to the APC National chairman, these are the reasons why the APC has been unable to fulfill any of its promises thus far:

The scale of corruption in Nigeria is one of the reasons the APC has been severely restricted from immediate delivery of electoral promises.

This had also affected fixing quick wins like evacuating generated electricity to the national grid.

The APC chairman also said the APC government is currently hamstrung by the near collapse of global oil price which has adversely affected the amount of money available to the government to carry out some of its programmes.

While urging the British government to continue to support the Buhari administration, Oyegun said President Buhari is currently focusing his energy into fighting corruption which he said was the main cause of infrastructural deficit in the country.

Speaking on developing sustainable infrastructure from the perspective of the party’s manifesto, Odigie Oyegun however, reaffirmed the party’s commitment to invest in critical infrastructure like energy, rail and roads to drive the country’s development.