Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen Chris Ngige has said he possesses everything Nigerians yearn for in a new President.
Ngige, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), said the next president must be visionary, intelligent, courageous and firm.
According to him, the country needs a President with capacity and experience who must be in charge.
According to him, the country needs a President with capacity and experience who must be in charge.
He spoke at the public presentation of Chief Chekwas Okorie’s book, titled: “APGA and the Igbo Question.”
In a statement from his media office on Thursday, Ngige described himself as eminently qualified to contest for the office of the President, saying he owed apologies to nobody for throwing his hat into the ring.
He said: “We need leaders who are visionary. As a leader, you must see what others didn’t see. We need leaders who are intelligent. You must be intelligent to see what others are not able to see.
“You must have the capacity and experience. What have you done with the position given to you in the past? You must be courageous to take difficult decisions. You can’t be a leader and people are pushing you around. You are the captain. You must be courageous.
“I am a presidential aspirant. There is no apologies about that. I have capacity and my wealth of experience is there. I have twice been minister of the most difficult ministry in Nigeria. I have the brain. I am compassionate.”
Ngige said as a result of his compassion, during COVID-19, he wrote a memo to the President requesting that members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) should be paid for the nine months they were on strike and the President being equally compassionate, graciously granted the request.
He said amidst economic challenges such that previous administrations would have found an excuse either to downsize or rightsize the workforce, this administration did none of that.
“I put before a compassionate President, quality pieces of pro-people advice and jobs were saved . I intervened when banks and financial institutions declared unilateral redundancy, sacking thousands of workers and saving jobs. I did the same in the oil and gas sector.”
