A Kwara stalwart of the All Progressive Party (APC), philanthropist, and peace ambassador, Honorable AbdulRahman Alabi Ajidagba has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to put the right pegs in the right holes.
He further urged President to honour the request of the Chairman of the Nigeria Governor’s Forum (NGF) Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq with Kwara appointments to fix the right people who worked tirelessly for the success of this administration at the state and national level.
He said “I want to once again congratulate Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq over victories in the presidential primary and general election for his strong steps taken against oppositions and saboteurs who believed Governor AbdulRazaq would not return as Governor of Kwara State, believing His Excellency Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq will not deliver President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR), on Feb. 25 general election.
“Most of these saboteurs were former political office holders and cabinet members during President Muhammad Buhari’s regime. Your Excellency sir, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, these people believed they have connections with you in one way or another other but they worked against you and APC in Kwara State except Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and his loyalists who worked tirelessly for the success we are enjoying today.
“Your Excellency sir, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I want to once again congratulate you for the transformation done so far, especially on fuel subsidy removal, student loan bills, CBN restructuring, the appointment of Special advisers and many other life-changing decisions made so far.
“To your advisers, I wish them well. I pray they will perform and they will do excellently in discharging their respective duties. Your Excellency sir, please put square pegs in square holes and round pegs in round holes of the same size.
“His Excellency, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (CON) has capable hands at all levels, who are up to the task, highly experienced and professionals in different fields, specialisations and professions.
“My general opinion sir, ignore ethnicity and chauvinism as your know as a man with a passion for everyone. Your Excellency, give responsibilities to people who can perform and not because they are from one ethnic group or the other.
“The idea of choosing people, because they are from a particular area rather than competence, should be jettisoned. Once the government continues doing that, things will not change. But when you pick competent people, irrespective of their ethnic and religious affiliations, things will change positively in Nigeria. With these Renew Hope is assured. Whether for a minister, ambassador, or head of parastatals, please put the right people there.
“When you give somebody a job to perform, give the person a time lag. Since you have four years, if within six months you did not see good performance, remove the person and put in another person.
“There are many people waiting for the job. Please do not use emotions, statism, and other primordial instincts. Use the right people. You may not get the right people the first time but when the person is delivering, give them the objective and what they should do, and what you are expecting from them. If after, four months, or six months, you are not seeing the results you desire, remove him and put someone else there. There are many people with capacity.”
Furthermore, Ajidagba commended the efforts of Buhari in ensuring the approval of some bills in the energy sector, and pointed out some things, Tinubu should do differently.
“On the energy sector, former President Muhammadu Buhari approved the amended act of the National Assembly taking off the generation and distribution of power from the exclusive list such that states and individuals with competence can now generate, distribute, sell power and make their money. This is very good. There must be allowance for private power and they should be encouraged by making it easy for the sincere ones among them to access finance for them to do the work they planned to do. And we thank God that Your Excellency has signed the electricity bill into law. This is a plus for Nigeria and Nigerians.
“Some stakeholders believe there are some aspects of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) that are not clear enough to give direction in the oil and gas sector of the country. There are blind spots in the PIA that should be clarified. There are overlapping provisions. There are provisions that are there that were not the original intent of the designers of the PIA.
“They changed drastically. I am happy that former President Muhammadu Buhari, at least, signed it into law, after over 20 years of trying to pass the bill. It is cheering that somebody finally did it. We give glory to God! But having done that, they can improve on it. For example, the blind spot is where you have the downstream in charge of the terminal,” he stated.
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