The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), John Gbor, has called on all Nigerians to shun the so-called next level being promised by President Muhammadu Buhari, describing it as next level of “incompetence and tyranny.”
Mr. Gbor said this in his new year message to Nigerians on Tuesday, promising to deliver good governance if elected in February by buidling a new Nigeria, where no one and no place would be left behind.
He pledged to “banish hunger, poverty, illiteracy, disease insecurity and fear. We shall pursue innovative and transformational leadership style under God to achieve our aims and aspirations in a new Nigeria” for all.
He said, “I implore you all to go to the new year with hope. I implore you all to take back the Nigerian spirit lost 74 years ago. I implore you all to vote for me as your President in February and all APGA contestants nationwide.
“They promise you next level of incompetence and tyranny, I promise you competence, courage, character and poverty-reducing good governance.
“They condone insecurity and impunity, I promise security of life and property, justice, equality, harmony and food security.
“They fan the ember of hate and violence, Gbor sows the seeds of love and peace. They victimise Nigerian workers with wringing wretched wage, I promise real living wage in the midst of plenty.
“They leave our youths to roam the streets without job and value, I promise to create jobs for the youth, women and physically challenged people by setting an agency to that effect in the Presidency, through data mining with utmost urgency.
“In the age of discontinuity, what can sustain the nation in a post-oil economy are: knowledge economy and tourism.
“Not less than 26% of annual budget will go to education as opposed to the 7 or so per cent currently given. “
The APGA presidential candidate further promised to create multilevel police system and to prioritise the formation of the National Guard to tackle terrorism, insurgency and disaster in order to concentrate the Army on defending the territorial integrity of the nation, not to be overstretched as being witnessed now.
On the problem of extra-judicial killings, Gbor said, “We shall not condone the extrajudicial killings of our nationals anywhere in the world. The eagle will descend where ever such is noticed. We shall view all forms of xenophobic attacks against Nigerians with utmost disdain.”
He added, “Gbor brings to you all the messages of hope, freedom, love, peace and tolerance, rule of law, not of the might.