By Joy Odor
The United States of America (USA) members of All Progressives Congress (APC) Chapter has on Wednesday charged the Nigerian youths, not to burn the country, noting that flying the flag of other countries is not acceptable.
Professo Adesegun Labinjo, the Leader of the delegate gave the charge while speaking with newsmen shortly after paying a courtesy visit to the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje in Abuja National Secretariat.
According to him, the issue of hardship being faced by Nigerians is not peculiar as people in other climes are also going through the same experience.
Labinjo reminded the youths to go make use of the Students Loan Scheme which the government has floated to make it easier to access education to any level of their choice.
He advised the youths not to despair because the Federal Government is already putting in place policies that would make it possible for the country to pull out of the current crisis in the nearest shortest time.
Labinjo however bemeaoned most of the people around President Bola Tinubu are not helping him in informing the public enough on the achievements of the administration.
He commended the leadership of the party for the way they have handled affairs of the party which has transformed it to the largest party in Africa and urged the leadership of the party to improve on its relationship with chapters of the party in the diaspora.
“We must not burn our country and flying the flag of other countries is not acceptable. Even in the USA where we live, there is still challenges”.
“There is no other country we can call our own but this Nigeria and no matter what we are going through today.
“The Students Loan Scheme is there and there are many other deliberate policies targeted at the youths.
“We acknowledge the facts that there is hardship in the country but it is not entirely a hopeless situation, also the government is working very hard to change the situation.
“So we have come to harmonise among other things the relationship between APC-USA and our parent party here in Nigeria.
“We have done so much, but we don’t know how it has been that we’ve not been here as a group.
“The APC USA has always been at the forefront of pushing the party’s agenda, particularly on social media.
“The biggest challenges we’ve is that the relationships between the party in Nigeria and the party abroad, something, it becomes difficult to talk to the people we need to talk to.
“We are glad to pay you this courtesy visit in support of the great way you have been leading this our party. We cherish you and admire your leadership style. We acknowledged your role as our leader.
“In support of you and our great President, we said since this country is facing turbulence at this time, we’re going there to show our support for our president, for the national leadership of our party and for our great country.
Responding, Ganduje acknowledged that there is a reform agenda and obstacles must always be on the way, as a result people must suffer in one way or the other.
He said the present turbulence facing Nigeria will soon be over, saying even the so-called developed economists of the world are facing turbulence in one way or the other.
APC Chairman informed that President Tinubu is doing all that is needed to be done abd commended the leadership of the party’s chapter in the USA for the courtesy visit to the national working committee of the party.
He assured that the party would continue to work with all its chapters and organs to assist the government to realize its objectives of providing the dividends of democracy to the people.
