NAIJA NEWS
A former Minister of External Affairs, Bolaji Akinyemi on Tuesday said President Bola Tinubu is paying the price of the past bad government.
Akinyemi stated this while speaking on Tinubu’s recent trip to New Delhi in India for the G20 summit in an interview with Arise TV.
President Tinubu attended the two-day summit on the special invitation of Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
Tinubu met with leaders of the US, Germany and South Korea on the sidelines of the summit, and also witnessed the conferment of permanent member title on the African Union.
Akinyemi said if Nigeria wants to be a permanent member of the prestigious G20, it has to work on improving its image in the international community.
The former minister said, “We must stop de-marketing Nigeria, irrespective of what the government does. If we as people have no faith in our own country, or in our own government, it will backfire. Let me, however, deal now with what I would call the international aspect of that summit and the implications for Nigeria. We are not members of the G20. Why?
“The reasons are many. One is the bad leadership that has driven our economy to the ground. Now that we know the cost of bad leadership, I hope we will give our country decent leadership that can promote Nigeria. We must stop Boko Haram and all the things that destabilize and give Nigeria a bad image.
