The Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye revealed that her husband, Olusola, and President Bola Tinubu, are among the many a number of others who fought for Nigeria’s democracy.
Adeyeye made this recognized on Friday in her interview on the Channels Television programme, Inside Sources.
Her feedback got here on the heels of the current nationwide #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest which began on August 1, 2024, however has misplaced recognition after every week.
The protest was birthed in response by some Nigerians to the financial hardship affecting the way of life of the citizenry.
The calls for of the organisers and protesters embrace a return of the gas subsidy, decreased value of meals gadgets, and low value of governance, amongst others.
The NAFDAC boss described the nation’s present scenario as “a reflection of a six-decade of decadence.”
“I was young when we got our independence, and I knew the Nigeria that worked,” she recalled.
Adeyeye stated, “We left the nation for additional research in 1980, and we had been a part of those that fought for the democracy of this nation. My husband and others fought for democracy on this nation. My husband with the present president of this nation, President Bola Tinubu, fought for independence. Some of them had damaged houses. Some of them and others within the diasporas had been all the time going to beg others to assist us and ship us from army rule then.
“At some point, a friend of mine asked me, “Aunty Moji, is something wrong with you and your husband?” Because he was educating on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and people had been the times he was current at house. He was all the time going with different leaders of Nigeria to beg different nations to assist us. So I take no matter is going on now personally.”
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The NAFDAC DG famous that the battle for Nigeria’s democracy made her husband return from overseas after greater than 20 years, and inside a 12 months, he introduced transformational adjustments to his Local Government in Osun State.
She stated, “That was what made him come again house in 2002 after 22 years. He was an interim chairman of his Local Government and folks had been shocked at what occurred to Ifedayo Local Government, Osun State, inside one 12 months.
“Before he got here, there was no gentle in his Local Government for six months. He introduced gentle. There was no water for 17 years, he introduced water.
“He wears knickers to work, and they told him he was supposed to be wearing Agbada. It was the best job he ever did.”
Adeyeye, a Professor of Pharmaceutics and Manufacturing, lamented that earlier than her return to Nigeria from the United States, the state of the nation’s pharmaceutical trade and high quality of medicines, amongst others was low.
“So, I take no matter is going on now personally. I used to be there for 37 years as a result of I needed to handle the kids. Both of us couldn’t come. He and others sacrificed loads for the pro-democracy motion. After 37 years, I got here again and naturally, my career is pharmacy. I used to be a professor for 30 years. I retired from the US system and got here again to a rustic I couldn’t recognise anymore when it comes to our values, the state of our pharmaceutical trade, the standard of medicines, and usually healthcare supply.
“That’s why I stated what is going on now’s a results of six a long time of decadence.
“I had thought of the new national anthem that says “in peace and plenty”. We are usually not in search of the Ethiopian system of presidency. It can’t occur. However, our individuals deserve the very best throughout the context of our sources.”
She suggested mother and father, and academic and spiritual establishments to make extra efforts in direction of restoring the misplaced values in Nigerian society.
“But our values have gone, and it began from the house. If the mother and father are usually not doing what they need to do, if the church and mosque are usually not doing what they’re presupposed to do, and if the faculties are usually not the way in which they need to be…it goes proper as much as the best degree of performance of society.
“So what is going on now may be very painful for me. I’m a realist as a result of, after 37 years overseas and coming again house, the truth is there that you’ve got to sacrifice. We had been very comfy within the US. But it isn’t all about consolation, however about making a big impression in society.
“In peace and plenty may Nigeria be blessed. We cannot be blessed without a transparent society. We cannot be blessed if we have corruption. Corruption has eaten into the fibre of the society,” she stated.
The NAFDAC boss had noted that she met a N3.2 billion debt and an unaccounted N500 million when she took over the company’s affairs in 2017.
Nigeria gained independence from the British colonial masters on October 1, 1960, and have become a democratic nation on May 29, 1999.
However, earlier than leaving workplace, former President Muhammadu Buhari, permitted June 12 because the Democracy Day, in commemoration of the late Moshood Abiola who died in incarceration after the annulment of the 1993 presidential election by former army dictator, Ibrahim Babangida.
During Tinubu’s nationwide broadcast on June 12, 2024, he prolonged appreciation to a number of the heroes and heroines who contributed immensely to Nigeria’s struggle for democracy.
These embrace however are usually not restricted to late Kudirat Abiola, Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, Alfred Rewane, Anthony Enahoro, Abraham Adesanya, Dan Suleiman, Arthur Nwankwo, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Ndubuisi Kanu, Adekunle Ajasin, Gani Fawehinmi, Beko Ransome-Kuti, amongst others.