‘Forget Past, Focus On Future’

The Ajiro-Oba of Otto-Awori, Chief Alhaji Wright has called  on  political  parties  to focus  their attention  on present  social and economic  circumstances  to advance  the development of the country and stop recalling the past to score  political  points among the electorate.

“It political parties  instead of presenting better   alternative  to the policies  and programmes of the  People Democratic Party   to transform  the quality of life of the mass of the people choose  to dwell on the omissions and excesses of past government then we will not be advancing as a nation in our democratic process”, he said.

Chief Wright who made the assertion  recently in Ijanikin pointed  out that “that contentious issue has no time frame “and should therefore  be shelved by the party since it will rather fostall  developments.

According to Chief Wright, the issue of national development has so many connotations that should not  be reduced to mere findings fault with regimes which have  managed the nation peacefully,

Chief Wright  who is  also a chieftain  of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), agreed that excesses were committed by parties from the erstwhile of National  Party of Nigeria (NPN) to the present political dispensation, although do not subscribed to the idea that parties in the fourth Republic should dwell on them at the expense of concentrating on crucial issues of national  development.

He, however, pointed out that such excesses should rather  guide  parties to avoid  their repetition as the country is about entering  year  2012, where it will faces difficult challenges and tasks its reconstruction efforts.

He said the nation is at the  moment saddled with numerous problems which demand  that parties should  find suitable alternation to weaknesses and shortcomings of the present government to meet the rising expectations of the vast  majority of the people.

He gave kudos to the  incumbent chairman of Otto-Awori local government development council for his People’s Oriented Programmes, adding that other political office seekers should  borrow a leaf from the physical developmental projects put in place by  the chairman of Otto-Awori Council, Mr. Bolaji Kayode Robert.

Nkpemenyie Mcdorminic, Lagos