By Dr Ugoji Egbujo
The big parties are back with big plans. Nigerian politicians make promises they cannot keep. The new plans contain many empty promises. But it is encouraging that the plans have received some attention. In the past, no one read the manifestoes of the parties.
The APC plans to take us to the next level. The PDP has an ATIKU PLAN which it believes will transform Nigeria in six years. Both plans are ambitious. They are filled with what the people want to hear. Those who wrote them did not bother to be meticulous. They simply promised to lift the poor out of poverty. And make the nation great.
But it’s good that we are discussing the plans. At some point in the future no serious party will release a plan that will look like something written by a Father Christmas. Atiku wants to build 5000 kilometers of roads and 5000 kilometers of rail…
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