Nigerians Didn’t Understand President Buhari’s Change Mantra – Lai Mohammed

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that Nigerians largely misunderstood the Change mantra which the All Progressives Congress used to campaign and win the 2015 presidential election, as the expected change will not happen overnight.

The minister, who spoke at a stakeholders’ meeting with the Executive Council of the Advertisers Association of Nigeria (ADVAN), stated that though the party campaigned using change mantra, it has been taken by Nigerians to mean that as soon as Buhari was sworn in, the next day, things would change completely in Nigeria.

The minister however maintained that Nigerians must understand that things do not happen that way because the country cannot continue to be doing things the same way and expect a different result.

According to him, it is the reason the Buhari-led government is coming up with the ‘Change Begins with You Campaign’. “The malaise crippling the fabric of the society today, ‘everybody is guilty,” he noted.

“Nigeria cannot adequately account for the lives that had been lost simply because some pharmacists decided to adulterate drugs. We cannot quantify how many lives we have lost because of the danfo drivers that wake up in the morning to drink paraga before hitting the road. Most of the traffic bottleneck in Nigeria today is due to indiscipline,” he said.