SDP’ll resolve Nigeria’s leadership crisis – Gabam

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has decried poor leadership by successive governments in the country, declaring that it is poised to deliver the country from its besetting challenges.
In a statement yesterday to mark the Democracy Day, the National Secretary of the party, Alhaji Shehu Gabam, SDP stated that after 19 years of democracy, the country was still groping in the dark of bad governance.
According to the party’s national scribe, the promises of attaining the “best days” by the last military head of state, Abdusalami Abubakar and “tackling corruption head on at all levels” by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, have remained a mirage.
Gabam lamented that “the fight against corruption retains its position in the rhetoric of successive governments.” The SDP national secretary noted that “it is not only corruption that has plagued our democracy over the years,” adding that poor leadership has made “recruitments into top government positions to be on the crest of cronyism, nepotism and other manifestations of godfatherism.” He also decried the devaluation of the currency from N90/$1 to N360/$1and the collapse of the economy, which has made most privatisedindustries comatose.
Other challenges, according to Gabam, are high rate of unemployment, put at about 11 per cent of the population, about 90 million Nigerians and high rate of under-employment, as graduates are encouraged to engage in low-paying menial jobs or low-value trades in the name of entrepreneurship.
He condemned the division of the country along ethnic, regional and sectarian lines.
He also said incessant killings by bandits and insurgents have made the lives of Nigerians now worthless.
He, however, congratulated Nigerians, saying that in the last 19 years, there has been a seamless transition of government from one administration and even party to another in tandem with the spirit of democracy

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