Presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress ,APC, Chief Sam Nda-Isaiah has given further insight into why he is in the presidential race.Speaking with journalists after he was screened by his party’s Committee on Tuesday ,Nda-Isaiah said he would fight corruption thoroughly
He once elected, he will not give the wrong signals about fighting corruption.“From your body language, people will decide whether to be corrupt or not. If your idea is to suspend the CBN governor for raising alarm about corruption, are you now surprised that there is corruption in the land?
He said further “I want to be President to change the course of history of this country. I did not leave what I was doing which I was enjoying to come and get harassed simply because I want to feel good about it.
“I don’t believe that a President should come and tell us that he paid salaries or built roads or built boreholes. If you look at the issues that have changed the course of history of nations in this world, you will realize that big ideas changed the course of their history. It is not just coming to sit down and follow the normal course of events.
“I have always said that when we take over in this country, we intend to unite the country as quickly as possible. Not the kind of unity you hear slogan about on television, but doing deliberate things to unite this country.
“Nigeria is too divided to be called a nation and that is because we cannot develop with these quarrelsome people. If you see people like this, it is because that is how the leaders want them to be which means that it is the leaders that are causing it.
“First, …. there must be justice and fairness. All crimes must be punished, no matter how long it takes, no matter who commits the crimes. There are so many murder cases we are told have been closed. No. We have to start running this country properly.
“Even though the word unity sound small, it is big. The unity of this country is one that you don’t even need a budget to achieve. All you need is sincerity and as President, you must really mean to do it.
“Secondly, we intend to create a soccer economy, because you know what soccer does to Nigerians. It is one thing we don’t quarrel about. We should build a soccer economy the same way other countries are doing and employ millions and our people.
“We cannot be Africa’s biggest economy as we claim to be and for 178 million people, we are struggling with 4000 megawatts of power. It does not make sense. From 1999 to date, we have spent $25 billion (on power).(All)we have achieved which is a change of name from NEPA to PHCN.
“The biggest owner station in the world which is the Three Gorges dam in China cost $26 billion and we have spent $25 billion to achieve 4000. ..A President must really want to leave legacies.
“The biggest coal fired station today in the world is in South Africa and is generating 4200 megawatts. There is no reason why we should not have the biggest power station in Africa because it is not impossible. This country built Abuja and Lagos when oil was selling for five dollar. What Babangida called oil boom was $25 per barrel. We have the capacity to do it if we want to.
“Under our government, we are going to be very harsh on corruption. The only way to punish corruption is by being harsh because we have enough laws to punish corruption. The chief fighter of corruption is not the EFCC or ICPC chairman , but the President himself”.
