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APC/Abdullahi Adamu:Time To Talk Issues And Leave The Tissue Of Lies

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"FpJKxY0b" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>By Bala Ibrahim&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"Q4m6InEd" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Politics&comma; particularly party politics&comma; has a special ambition that is geared towards improving people’s status&comma; or increasing power within a country&period; The debate between parties having power in a country or activities associated with the governance of a country&comma; also fall within the purview of politics&period; And in the political arrangement of Nigeria today&comma; the party in power is the All Progressives Congress&comma; APC&comma; which is the party that wrestled power from the Peoples Democratic Party&comma; PDP&comma; forcing it into the opposition since 2015&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Because of the unanticipated nature of that feat&comma; alongside the immense enthusiasm of Nigerians to urgently arrive at the Eldorado&comma; expectations were arrested by impatience&comma; which gave way to anxiety&comma; nervousness&comma; and general unease about the government’s sincerity of purpose&comma; to the timely delivery of the promised democratic dividends&period; Yes&comma; the party became a victim of misinterpretation&comma; misapprehension and downright delusion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Genuine as some of these reservations are&comma; and despite the fact that the government was challenged by some factors&comma; the APC is determined not to let such scepticism migrate to misgivings&comma; hence the effort put in place to bring in Sen&period; Abdullahi Adamu&comma; to play the part of a bridge builder at this critical point&period; There is a slogan that says&semi; Good things come to those who wait&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"8MlZC2M4" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2021&sol;05&sol;08&sol;ceo-media-trust-organizes-special-iftar-reception-for-prof-abdalla-uba-adamu&sol;">CEO Media Trust organizes Special Iftar Reception for Prof&period; Abdalla Uba Adamu<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Patience help in improving our ability to accept setbacks and enjoy life much more&comma; by allowing us to persevere and make more productive decisions&period; Some of these decisions involve the reversal of the narrative that turns every issue into a tissue of lies&period; As the chairman of the APC&comma; Sen&period; Abdullahi Adamu has arrived with such sense of purpose or intention to deliver&comma; on the core mandate of the party&comma; and by extension&comma; the government&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since march this year&comma; when he emerged as the national chairman of the party&comma; the road became sign posted&comma; for a party with the intention of executing a knowledge based agenda&comma; that would be addressing issues in accordance with it’s manifesto&comma; as a political vehicle of transformation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Therefore&comma; inspired by such party manifesto&comma; particularly the prescribed ambition to devolve powers&comma; duties and responsibilities to states and local governments&comma; in order to entrench the spirit of true Federalism&comma; the Abdullahi Adamu administration has been working assiduously&comma; towards attracting the best and brightest into politics and public service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is done through the aggressive recruitment of private sector people&comma; academics and professionals within and outside Nigeria&period; The aim is to help the governments&comma; at the federal&comma; sate and local levels&comma; succeed in the mission to shade off what is sometimes referred to as&comma; the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;excess fat”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yes&comma; pre the arrival of the APC&comma; Nigeria went grossly fat or overweight&comma; with bloated and inefficient expenditure&comma; mostly brought about by corruption and poor economic management&period; The APC came under the mantra of change&comma; and started the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Tummy Tuck” procedure&comma; that set the ball rolling for the oil sector revolutionary phenomena&period; That is one issue that is being turned into some tissues of lies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As a Senator&comma; Abdullahi Adamu worked with colleagues in the law making arm of the government&comma; to ensure that the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill became a law&comma; by providing the legal framework for the selling of shares&comma; that turns the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation&comma; NNPC&comma; into a private&comma; and hopefully profitable company&period; It’s a difficult and painful decision&comma; but the end result of such tummy trimming is now toning down Nigeria’s bloated abdomen&comma; to an efficiently manageable position&period; These are measures that can not be easily achieved through the conventional economic sit-ups&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But with people like Sen&period; Abdullahi Adamu&comma; who have the will and wherewithal for a better Nigeria&comma; shaping the body politic of the country is taken as a task that must be done&comma; regardless of those who may want to turn every issue into a tissue of lies&period; The commendation coming from the oil industry now&comma; is an indication of such solemn success&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Because of his antecedents in the struggle for a better Nigeria&comma; as well as a seasoned reformer&comma; the Chairman of the APC&comma; Abdullahi Adamu arrived with a special vigour&comma; the vigour of helping governments save money and increase efficiency in all sectors of the economy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It may interest the reader to know that Senator Abdullahi Adamu started his foray into politics in 1977&comma; as an elected member of the Constituent Assembly&comma; the body that drafted the Nigeria’s Second Republic Constitution of 1979&period; He was one of the pioneer members of the National Movement&comma; which changed to the National Party of Nigeria&comma; NPN&period; He served as the Secretary&comma; and later Chairman of the NPN in Plateau State in 1980&comma; and by 1993&comma; former Head of State&comma; Gen&period; Sani Abacha&comma; appointed him as a member of the National Constitutional Conference&comma; to draft the constitution for a new democratic government&period; He was later appointed the Minister of State in the Ministry of Works and Housing in 1995&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the lifting of the ban on politics in 1997&comma; Abdullahi Adamu joined the defunct United Nigeria Congress Party&comma; UNCP&period; With the return of democracy to Nigeria in 1999&comma; Adamu joined the Peoples Democratic Party&comma; PDP&comma; where he contested and won the governorship election in Nasarawa State by a landslide&period; He was re-elected with a massive landslide&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Adamu has been a Senator since 2011&comma; from where he was elected to lead the APC at the highest level in March this this year&comma; and the match is to match words with action&comma; through the talk of issues&comma; and not the tissue of lies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 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