Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has said that Nigerians must massively vote against President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party as the first step towards rescuing the nation from insecurity and bad governance.
According to a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Friday by his media aide, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, the governor said this when labour leaders in the state met him to submit a report of workers’ effort to increase the state’s internally generated revenue.
According to him, the Presidential Candidate of the All Progresssives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has come at the right time to rescue Nigeria from total destruction just like he did in 1983 when his coup ended the second republic.
He said, ” What Nigerians require is a careful easing out of President Jonathan and an installation of a government that knows what to do with power to transform the lives of the masses.
“Our people can distinguish between the selfish and the selfless. Those who voted for me in the August 9 election in Osun have another assignment on their hands. If you voted for me and you don’t vote for Buhari and our representatives in the next elections, you have missed it.
“Don’t fight. Don’t carry cutlasses, guns or any other thing. Just go to the polling booths on that day and vote for our party. That is the power we all have to rescue ourselves from these elements.
“If we love ourselves, our towns and our country, we must all promote Buhari and campaign for him vigorously.”
Aregbesola explained that Buhari came to rescue Nigeria from the jaws of death in 1983 when the retired general toppled the administration of President Shehu Shagari of the defunct National Party of Nigeria.
Buhari’s coming efforts this time, the governor, was also to rescue the nation from the grip of the PDP led government who he said had destroyed it to a large extent.
The governor, who said it was curious that despite the huge fund realized by the nation from sale of crude oil in the past years, Nigerians were being made to suffer greatly just some months after the crash of the price of oil.
He said, ” Goodluck Jonathan and PDP cannot be excused from the various crises bedeviling the country today. A country that sold crude oil above $100 for more than three years must be asked what it has done with the huge resources that accrued to it.
“The responsibility for the economic tragedy that we are witnessing in Nigeria today rests permanently and absolutely on the PDP and its government at the federal level. There is no way that party and its government can be excused. As a first step to salvage our nation, we must vote out PDP.
“How can we explain that oil sold for more than three years above 100 dollars per and yet we are faced with this calamity without any redemption in sight? How can we explain it?”
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