The plummeting price of oil in the international market which has left Nigeria in dire straits may just be God trying to reform a corrupt and spendthrift Nigerian space, says APC chairman John Odigie-Oyegun.
Oyegun made the assertion as he received a 15-member delegation of an APC support group, Change Agents Foundation (CAF), led by its Director-General, Felix Felix, at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
“I think God has a hand in the current economic predicament of the country. Imagine the sudden fall in the price of crude oil, the mainstay of the Nigerian economy, from its heights in 2014, averaging $112 per barrel down to the current price of $28 per barrel – lower than the $38 per barrel which the proposed 2016 budget is predicated on. It is an object lesson for us. It tells us that we must embrace radical change in our economic model,” he said.
The chairman of the ruling party added that the time calls for sacrifice and innovation from leadership and the led.
“The concept of change is a difficult one. Nigeria must be ready to adapt to new ways of doing things. As a party, we know and understand it calls for tremendous sacrifice; there is no other way. Yes, the economy is in a bad shape, but maybe that is the kick we need to be innovative and find ways to drive the economy out of the woods.
“The luck we have is that we have, as president, a man committed to personal probity and sincerity of purpose to the project of developing Nigeria. Today, we must think and be innovative in ways of fashioning out new economic models which diversify from the present over reliance on oil”.
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