Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a political association within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the National Prosperity Movement (NPM) has urged Nigerians to elect people with antecedents of vision, competence and empathy that will motivate and inspire the country into prosperity.
The Kogi state coordinator, Dr Musa Abutalib, gave the charge on Wednesday while inaugurating local government coordinators of the movement in Lokoja.
He said reliable and youthful persons should be elected to rule the country in 2023.
According to him, a leader must have a compassionate heart in his conduct, adding that the National Prosperity Movement is out to achieve changes in Nigeria for good through the birthing of an effective and visionary political leadership in 2023.
Abutalib noted that over the years, different federal administrations have implemented numerous development plans and targets with the overarching ambition of improving the material conditions of Nigerians.
He said all of these efforts have fallen shorts, and instead of improvements in the lives of the majority of the citizenry, things have worsened over time.
“Even more worrisome is the fact that it has got to the point that these anomalies are being normalized, as people focus on coping mechanisms, having given up all hopes of ever living in a peaceful, stable and prosperous country.
“These abnormalities culminated in the recent #EndSARS protests, which were led by our young people.”
The protests were really a cry against the oddity that Nigeria has become and a rejection of the political establishment that has produced such a dysfunctional country.”
