The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) has congratulated President Bola Tinubu on his judicial victory confirmation by the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
The group in a statement signed by its General Secretary, Ayo Opadokun, said it is time for Tinubu to deliver the much-expected services in the socio-economic and political sphere through well-thought-out and rightly directed policies.
NADECO asked the President to quickly alleviate the unacceptable level of suffering, poverty, economic misery and neglect to which Nigerians have been subjected by immediate past rulers and leaders, for many years now.
The group also said Tinubu should implement the El-Rufai Committee’s Report which recommended resource control, state police, and constitutional amendments to allow the merger of states, among others. It stated that the implementation would enable the country to return to the federal constitution.
“NADECO wishes to restate that even though our preference was for the Nigerian State to first organize the necessary and desirable return to Federal Constitutional Governance upon which Nigeria secured her independence, we are gratified that the partisan politicians have locked horns, campaigned, contested, won and lost election and have exhausted all the legal remedies available for whatever redress they deemed fit in the circumstances of the elections.
“NADECO further wishes to state that now is the time to deliver the much-expected services in the socio-economic and political sphere through well thought out and rightly directed policies desirable to quickly alleviate the unacceptable level of suffering, poverty, economic misery and neglect to which Nigerians have been subjected by immediate past rulers and leaders, for many years now.
“NADECO again restates for emphasis that while we strongly desire an immediate upliftment in the standard and quality of living of Nigerians, we expect much more than the necessary bread and butter economic gains. NADECO believes that the President Bola Tinubu Government must equally prioritize the process of implementing the APC manifesto and the El-Rufai Committee’s Report.”
NADECO also insisted that those parading themselves as NADECO USA are not part of the group. “We wish to restate again that the so-called ‘NADECO USA’ is a fraud and a deception being promoted by elements that were not in any of our structures while NADECO operated globally.
“We have denounced this farcical group, reminding them that NADECO at its November 1999 properly convened meeting in Virginia, USA, presided over by its National Leader, Chief Anthony Enahoro, the organization announced that it was winding down its overseas operations. There had been no reversal of that decision.
“NADECO recognizes the fundamental rights of Nigerians to hold personal opinions and to express them in persons or in groups. What is deeply objectionable is for elements that were not part of NADECO while it was losing its sweat, blood, liberty, possession, and even martyred to suddenly start appropriating the good name and reputation earned through a lot of pain and sacrifice by NADECO for their transient pursuit of partisan objectives.
“President Bola Tinubu as a critical stakeholder in the highest structure of NADECO, who expended his resources and network together with others while we were in the trenches should prove beyond reasonable doubts that he remains faithful and committed towards restoring Nigeria to the negotiated federal constitution.
“No one needs to remind Mr President that the current warped, skewed, and lopsided national structure must be reconfigured in order to give hope and a sense of belonging to all Nigerians that they are equal joint stakeholders in the Nigerian Project.”
