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| Adam Oshiomhole |
Edo ex-governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has expressed optimism that
President Muhammadu Buhari will be ‘conveniently re-elected’ if he seeks for a
second term in office come 2019.
By 2019, he said, the Buhari administration would have further consolidated
on its numerous giant strides so much so that comparisons would then be made to
Nigerians as to the messy situation the country was in 2015 and the changes
that were recorded afterwards.
In his first interview granted since leaving office, the former Nigeria
Labour Congress (NLC) president, said against the rhetoric of critics who no
longer have access to stolen and cheap money, the truth remains that the
country was gradually undergoing an unprecedented change that has put it in the
path for greatness and real success.
“If the People’s Democratic Party were still at the center, I bet you
it would have been case closed for Nigeria. Boko Haram got up to Benin and had
a base in Kogi. Who wants to return to that path? Who wants to go back to the
era when Nigeria Army were said to be running away from battle? Who wants to
return to the era of abuse of subsidy?
“Again, in all fairness who wants to return to the era of crude oil
theft? I had asked former President Jonathan as a member of the security
committee with governors how crude oil were been stolen in tankers and the
Nigerian Navy was not aware? Were the tankers flying? Why are we not hearing
such stories again,” he queried.
“Who was in government when companies such as Michelin, Dunlop, and
Nestlé etc started relocating to Ghana? Here in Nigeria, a government spent
$16bn on power and at the end of spending the last dollar the country
degeneration rated from from 4,000 megawatts to 2000 megawatts.
“Who wants to return to an era where in the name of privatization, the
PDP government handed over sensitive national assets to brothers, friends and
cronies who neither have the competence nor the wherewithal to invest in power
distribution which has further compounded our problem today.
“So who wants to return to such time? So honestly for me, the facts and
choice is clear ahead and of course will be in 2019,” the former Edo governor
stated.
While welcoming the President back to the country, Comrade Oshiomhole
praised the President on the way and manner he handled his vacation, saying it
was unprecedented.
“President Buhari is not the first to fall ill, he just happens to be
the first in the history of Nigeria to acknowledge that he was ill and hence
going on vacation and also to seek medical attention.
“And as required by law, unlike in the past, he duly wrote to the
National Assembly and requested that his vice acted as stipulated. What more
did Nigerians expect, he queried.
Source: Today.ng
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