Erstwhile Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has said that the unpalatable economic situation in Nigeria is not the doing of the President Bola Tinubu-led administration.
Ambode said this at the Akinjide Adeosun Foundation, AAF’s 2024 Leadership Colloquium and Award: Chapter 8, with the theme: ‘Economic Asphyxiation–The Wisdom of Authentic Leaders’, held at Alliance Francaise, in Ikoyi.
Ambode who was the governor of the state between 2015 and 2019 said the nation’s problem didn’t just start today noting that the country needs a courageous President like Tinubu to fix them sustainably.
His words: “It (challenges) has nothing to do with the singular person called Mr Presiadent; but if we don’t understand the fundamentals, we will start playing the blame games. We need to face our problems frontally.
“The major issue is that we are even tired of not fixing our issues. Now, we have found somebody that has decided in person of President Tinubu.”
Urging Nigerians to stop the blame games, he said: “Until we decide ourselves to say that we should unite for the common cause called Nigeria, the security issues will not go.
“We are all in a position to actually support Mr President, let us start to look at it from a different prism.
“We don’t have to wake up in the morning and talk ill of Nigeria. We get what we profess about Nigeria.”
“We must think out of the box. We have to feed ourselves. When we start to think by ourselves and today we will resolve the issues concerning Nigeria, we will smile,” he added
