We’ll guarantee happiness to all Nigerians if…― Liberation Movement

LIBERATION Movement (LM), one of the parties jostling for offices in the 2019 General Elections, said on Friday that it is set to run a Smart Government where the right to life and liberty to pursue happiness is guaranteed for Nigerians, among others if elected into power.

This is just as it lamented that government practice in the country for the past 58 years had grown to become a huge burden and consistently been fraught with failure and despair as it had been running on outmoded policies.

National chairman of the party, Dr Kriz David, gave this promise in Lagos at its launch, saying that the new world order is defined by smart government and that “nations that have not risen to the high demands and expectations of smart government have long been left in the backwoods of under-development and extreme poverty.”

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Speaking with newsmen, David, who was flanked by other chieftains of the party, including Moryn Okafor, Okorie Phillip, national organising secretary; Rahman Adebiyi, Lagos State chapter chairman, among others, said there was need now to entrench moral leadership to take charge of the country, giving the concern that Nigeria had “become a colossal failure in leadership and governance, trapped in the morass of a failed state with impoverished citizenry and a future of hopelessness and despair.”

“We need to entrench moral leadership to address the challenges bedevilling the country through bad leadership. The Nigeria we have today, life is subservient, look at all the sectors, we are not doing well. We need new ideology to provide economic and political freedom.

“Permit me to take you through the voyage of shaping the Nigerian Dream and unravelling the Path of Prosperity for any nation is not a flash in the pan. It requires systems thinking. It involves a holistic and methodical process of tackling the root cause of the problems. The various solutions or intervention programmes that have evolved in Nigeria are mainly addressed to symptoms. I believe this is the major reason we are marooned in a cycle of failure without finding a concrete solution to the problems of Nigeria,” he said.

“Truly, there is a pathway to prosperity that we must genuinely and diligently follow to achieve the preferred future for Nigeria. This pathway is what we are offering Nigeria as a smart government,” he said, adding that to accomplish it five steps to be taken comprised implementing the article of faith, rule of law, economic freedom, fair tax system and learning economy that “will ignite a productive society and reposition public institutions to be fit-for-purpose and ultimately provide citizen-centred services in an efficient manner.”

David, who is also the party’s presidential candidate, assured that Liberation Movement, which he said was open to all Nigerians, including the youth, was, therefore, set to reconstruct the country’s foundation by enthrencing equality, meritocracy and other virtues, noting that it was the absence of those virtues that made life to be subservient and insecurity to thrive in the country

“All these put together, we are going to evolve innovative policies to drive them to fruition,” he assured.

Responding to a question, the party national chairman dismissed the notion that Liberation Movement was new in the political terrain, saying that the party was not new and had its strategy to take over the country, come 2019.

“We are not new, we have new strategy. We are making the party platform available to all Nigerians and the youth. This party is available to all Nigerian people and the people would be connected to our party by the virtues we are bringing on the table,” he said.