A chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) and lawyer, Jesutega Onokpasa, has called on President Bola Tinubu to build a competent ‘Nigerian team’ around himself in order to be able to right the wrongs of previous administrations and achieve his economic plans for Nigeria.
Addressing President Tinubu in a viral video message, the member of the APC Presidential Campaign Council for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, called on the president to dismantle the team of Lagosians around him and assemble a team of Nigerians that would assist him deliver on his Renewed Hope Agenda, saying Lagosians in the presidential team had been redundant and of no value to the administration.
According to him, the earlier Tinubu gets better people, the better for his aspiration of fixing the country.
“Mr. President, most of us supported you because we know your antecedent, what you have done in Lagos. But, you see, you cannot come to form a core of a team that is basically a Lagosian team to fix Nigeria, it is mathematically incongruous. It is an incongruity. It is expected that you will mobilise a team of Lagosians to fix Lagos but you will have to mobilise a team of Nigerians to fix Nigeria.
“You see these Lagosians you brought to Abuja to help fix Nigeria, with respect, are not helping you, starting with your Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila. You will have to dismantle this team, with respect, my president, you will have to dismantle it and rebuild a true genuine Nigerian core.
“Your core team must no longer be a Lagosian team, it must be a Nigerian team. Otherwise, we will just continue like this. Most of them are just interested in making money, they don’t love you and they are not interested in your welfare and success. They are not interested in your political welfare, they are not interested in moving Nigeria forward, these guys have been parasitising you for decades. Let me use our Delta parlance, ‘Dem don parasite you reach’. Discard them. There are many people across this country.
“I am not talking about myself, I don’t need an appointment. Have I not been surviving? I have been spending money on you. Have I come to you to beg you for money before? I will continue supporting you, my president, I don’t need you to give me anything. You have to dismantle this your Lagosian core.
“They think Nigeria is Lagos? Sapele is not Lagos, Warri is not Lagos, Benin is not Lagos, Ughelli is not Lagos, Lokoja is not Lagos, even right there in Yoruba land, is Akure Lagos? Is Ado-Eki Lagos, is Osogbo Lagos? You cannot bring a Lagosian team and believe it will be able to fix Nigeria. A Lagosian team will fix Lagos, it is a Nigerian team that will fix Nigeria,” Onokpasa said.