Chieftain Adamu Garba of the All Progressives Congress (APC) asserted that if the nation relies on the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for its energy supplies, it will continue to face disappointment.
Garba further asserted that as long as lawmakers approve spending plans using money from oil sales, the country’s economy will weaken.
He said as much in a Sunday post on his X account.
Nigeria should join the BRICS, according to Garba, as it offers better prospects for the stability and peace of the nation in the future.
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates make up the international group known as BRICS.
He said: “As long as Nigeria continues to depend on NNPC for our energy supply, Nigeria will continue to face disappointment.
“As long as politicians continue to make budgetary provisions from the proceed of oil, our economy will continue to dwindle.
As long as our market continue to rely on dollar corridors, our scarcity will not cease.
“We have to make a fundamental change as a country. Fundamental change in our economic ideologies and foreign relationships. We cannot continue facing same issue will all administrations, from Obasanjo till now, following same food steps and still expect different results. We can’t continue to blame only the political leadership.
“The issue might not be solely on the leaders, but our fundamental internal and external structures. We must have to change and BRICS gives us an opportunity to pivot to a group of like minded countries who also needed change like us.
“The faster we join the BRICS, the better for the future of Nigeria’s stability and peace. We must inwardly protect the Naira, while outwardly negotiate with multipolar interests.May God see Nigeria through, always.”
