Reporting has that Chief John-Oyegun could no longer hide
his displeasure about President Buhari’s regime. This came as the Oyegun who is
the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) admitted the fact
the President Buhari does not enjoy any popularity again as he did amid the
2015 general election.
“All governments
worldwide in between terms lose some degree of popularity; no question about
that,” he told Punch.
“We are having harsh economic times, no question about that
and that does not increase the popularity of any government. It only diminishes
it to some extent. What is different is that, in our case, in spite of the
harsh economic realities, the people still have full confidence, trust.
“I think that is the proper word, in President Buhari, that
he will do his very best to improve their lot and I think the proof of that was
the reaction to the threatened strikes by the labour unions. You can see that
even though people are unhappy, they refused to come out because they
understood.
“They are in pain but they understood why the pain was there
and they trusted the President that he was doing everything within his power to
ameliorate their pain. So yes, there is a lot of grumbling all over the place,
but also there is a lot of trust in Mr. President”, he added.
As regards internal disaster in some states, including Kano,
Bayelsa and Kogi, Oyegun said the party was attending to each of them.
“In vevery case, we are making progress. Bayelsa should be
concluded in a matter of weeks. Kano is basically a personality thing and we’ve
got everybody to sheathe their swords for now.
“And I think that has happened. Kano has cooled off. We also
have issues in Kogi State which we are also attending to. That is the only way
you know a government that is in power.
“If we were in opposition, there won’t be skirmishes in
these states because there would be nothing to skirmish over but since we are
in power, people are still struggling for relative importance within the system
with an eye on tomorrow.
“These things are normal, they are expected but we’ve
developed that habit of democratic consultation and reconciliation and it is
working”, he said.
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