A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has appealed to Nigerians to give President Bola Tinubu an additional year to fix the country’s challenges and deliver on his campaign promises.
He made the appeal yesterday, when he appeared as a guest on Arise TV’s “The Morning Show”. The PDP chieftain who acknowledged that President Tinubu is still struggling with meeting his campaign promises stated that as a first-time president, needs more time to implement his policies and convince Nigerians on his vision.
George said Tinubu’s lack of prior experience in the presidency warrants a grace period, citing that even former president Olusegun Obasanjo needed time to adjust in his first year in office.
He added that Tinubu had never served at that level.
“Well, you will say he was part of the party (APC) that formed the government (of Muhammadu Buhari) but it’s a hell of a different thing taking over and now leading the team.
“To be fair to my conscience, he has had that one-year holiday of trying to study the failures of the past administration. I have given him that one year of grace because now he has seen it and lived there.
“I expect his ministers to have come back in one year with those areas of lapses. Even when Baba (Olusegun Obasanjo became president in 1999, he was still trying to figure out what happened there or vise-versa in his first year. Let’s give him more time,” he added.
