Former governor of Rivers state and the current Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has called on his fellow ministers in the Muhammadu Buhari led APC government to stop blaming past administration of Goodluck Jonathan and focus on how to deliver good governance to Nigerians.
Amaechi in a meeting with journalists in his office yesterday said it is time for officials in this administration to concentrate on delivering good policies to the citizens rather than dragging the former president for Nigeria’s woes.
The transportation minister who decried Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit, drawing a comparison with other relatively new countries like Singapore said “I agree with those who said we should stop criticizing the last government and that we should do our own. We need to leverage on what we know. People are shouting intermodal transport; I went to the new airport in Singapore and I didn’t find one person at the airport, as you walk in, technology takes over”.
Amaechi while calling for an urgent renaissance in Nigeria’s infrastructure, especially in the area of information and communications technology, disclosed that since Singapore was thinking of introducing driverless cars in the next few years, we should also think outside the box about how to improve our transport sector and think less about how sun and moon affect the sector or building more bus stops.
In the same vein, the spokesperson for the All Progressive Congress APC Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi said the wrongdoings of Mr. Jonathan’s government would remain in the memories of Nigerians, but that the current administration was not voted to amplify them.
Abdullahi in his words said “enough of blaming the previous administration, Nigerians want us to focus yes, there were problems created by the previous administration, but Nigerians didn’t vote for us because they want us to be telling them who’s responsible. They want us to be solving problems,”
