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From Tony John, Port Harcourt
The Future Nigeria Movement
(FNM) has called on President Bola Tinubu to ensure that his administration is target-based and goal oriented.
It has also charged the president to ensure that all appointees of his government are placed on target on a well defined and renewed hope agenda.
Theeader of the group, Livingstone Wechie, who made the call in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Wednesday, stated that FNM had kept track of the eight points agenda of President Tinubu particularly in view of his first 100 days in office.
Wechie said: “No appointees should be retained who married and parties over an appointment as that will be a pointer to the old order indicative of malfeasance and compensational mindset.
“They (appointees) must be made to commit to the attainment of set targets and be brought to account for the public funds allocated to them to determine their continuation in office.
“The agenda to us are mainly anchored on the rule of law and economic recovery. This is because in fairness to the President, security and the inclusivity question are byproducts of injustice while other points are largely economy based.
“The FNM, as a stakeholder organisation for the realisation of a strong institutionally productive and efficient Nigerian democratic politics, recommends that the President must put all his appointees and MDAs on actionable targets if he must succeed.”
Wechie continued: “It, therefore, follows that, whereas the first 100 days by the current administration can be seen as a test run, the remaining years must be strictly result-oriented and the government must function as one which is bent on recovering Nigeria from slum to paradise.
“President Tinubu having inherited a destroyed economy inexcusably should strive towards a rebound and build back our foreign reserve to secure the future of Nigeria. This cannot be without a team-spirited and target-based governance structure as a legacy outcome of his reign.
“We recognise that the president has painstakingly taken hard decisions like the removal of the petroleum subsidy in keeping with his campaign promise We insist that mere monetary palliative will not substantially cushion the effect of the impact thereof. What Nigeria deserves urgently are functional infrastructure palliative such as power and working refineries, which is not a difficult goal.”
The group urged President Tinubu to prove naysayers wrong by restoring the nation’s refineries to full productive capacity because the Nigeria has the professional capacity to revamp the refineries.
Wechie said: “The economic fate of our citizens cannot be placed at the mercy of manipulative market forces.”
He added that the offices of the Chief of Staff to the President, Head of Service and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation must task themselves to monitor and ensure target-based compliance by the appointees of the President across the ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).
The FNM leader continued: “The federal government should work out an actionable and enforceable modality within a democratic policy framework to bring state governors to account for all monies disbursed to them to ensure strict accountability and probity in governance.
“Giving billions of tax payer’s monies to governors to chose how they use it without necessary conditionalities is aiding and abetting a crime against citizens by the federal government.
“The practice of closed government systems where state governments run state resources like personal monies must be discontinued as a marching policy.
“The federal government should give necessary support and protection to ordinary Nigerians to hold governors to account to ensure that every money is defined with purpose to determine a next allocation as a check on their unbridled excesses.”
