The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has lambasted the
All Progressive Congress for lack of diversity in its on-going national policy
dialogue which kicked off in Abuja today, reports ITRealms.
APGA through its publicity secretary, Okwukwe Ibiam told ITRealms that the proposed list of
speakers depicts insensitivity to the Nigerian body politic
.
“It is rather unhealthy for an in-coming Government to seem
rather non-inclusive, at this out-set,” he said.
According to Ibiam, a forum as the above should look to
include viewpoints from the diverse ethnic Nigerian population in academia,
chieftains of the different economy and industry, rather than a selection of
representatives from given ethno-religious zone.
“The choice of presenters could be more varied and better,”
he said, stressing that a forum which seeks to transform vision to reality may
not ignore or take for granted issues of peace and domicile security for all
Nigerians, also the expatriate class, which make for a conducive economic
environment, investment and trade.
APGA also said that transportation and infrastructure
development in Nigerian economic planning requires expansion of seaport access
to different parts of coastal Nigeria to increase National economic vibrancy
and decrease port congestion, especially in Lagos.
Insisting that reviving the Nigerian Ports of Calabar, Port
Harcourt, Warri, and not reducing them to specialized establishments in
addition to creating a Port at Oron, Akwa Ibom State, cannot be over-emphasised.
APGA further said that encouraging the development of
geo-economic zones and looking at factors against the continued development of
different market zones in Nigeria, which are daily losing business to other
parts of Nigeria, particularly from the East Coast to the West coast, secondary
to scorching Government trade and economic policy on Ports, Portage and
infrastructure.
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