A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, has called the electorate to prepare charms and adopt other methods to defend their votes in the 2015 general election.
Tinubu said in Osogbo at the inauguration of Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, for a second term in office that doing so was the best way to ensure their votes count. “We are celebrating the courage, steadfastness, truth and bravery of Aregbesola and people of Osun in the last election, especially when battalions of security men were sent to the state all in the name of the election.
“I also want to charge the people of Osun State to arm themselves with local rings, armlets and whatever they have to defend the 2015 general election and liberate themselves from the Goodluck Jonathan-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). “People should stand firm to defend their votes in 2015 as they did in Osun State. “I salute your steadfastness to make over 30,000 armed policemen shameful. Continue after the cut...
I want to assure you that what they stole from us in Ekiti will be reclaimed. I charge you to be fully prepared against the 2015 presidential election by being brave and valiant to monitor your votes during the coming election,” he added. According to him, a revolution to push the PDP out of power at the federal level has been kick started by the APC, starting with the August 9 governorship election in Osun State, which the party won. Tinubu said: “The revolution they don’t understand, which they call violence, has started.
They define revolution as bloodshed. The revolution we are talking about is the ability to use our voters’ cards to send these people away. They have failed.” The former governor stated that the revolution would provide employment opportunities and better welfare for Nigerians and also generate the needed power to drive industrial growth across the country, “and not the lies from Abuja.” He said: “They take from you; and they steal from all of us. In the class system they created, the poor remain poorer.”
Tinubu added that the country is worse off than it was four years ago and urged the people to reject the PDP in 2015. In his speech at the occasion, former Head of State and a presidential aspirant of the APC, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, said although APC was demoralised after the Ekiti disaster and the impeachment of Alhaji Murtala Nyako as governor of Adamawa State, the people of Osun State revived the party’s morale with the re-election of Aregbesola.
On his part, Edo State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, saluted the courage of the Osun electorate, whom he said despite the intimidations before and during the governorship election, they resolved to vote for Aregbesola and ensure his victory. According to him, their resolve showed that the right to vote, defend the vote, and have a winner is at the discretion of the electorate alone.
Governors Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun) Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo) said the outcome of the Osun election proved to the world that no amount of intimidation could stop the wishes of the people. Aregbesola thanked the people for returning him as governor and promised that he would do more to ensure the development of the state and provide better welfare to the people. He said: “The PDP stands for poverty, misery and insecurity.
They are prepared to sacrifice the entire country as long as their hold on power is intact. Come February next year, Nigerians are going to say enough is enough. We are going to beat them because they are beatable.” He said what Nigeria needed at this time were God-fearing and incorruptible leaders who would galvanise the people and judiciously husband the nation’s resources to overcome its challenges. “We must terminate the regime of self-seeking manipulators who currently parade corridors of power, accruing political profit by turning us against each other and further dividing us along ethnic and religious lines.
“The result of their politics of division is that Nigerians are poorer in the last 16 years whereas Nigeria as a country has never been richer save for recent months when oil price has declined. “This manifests again in their continued lawlessness evidenced in the desecration of the National Assembly and the travesty at Ekiti Assembly. They have demonstrated without doubt their inability to protect Nigerians and the territorial integrity of our country.
We must therefore be determined to vote out the party that has brought us to this sorry pass. We must show them the way out,” Aregbesola stated. Highlighting the achievements of his administration, the governor said: “In the past four years, we have striven to keep faith with the people on the mandate given to us. We set out to re-enact the Obafemi Awolowo tradition of leadership and good governance; a tradition that set the Western Region apart. The formidable challenges notwithstanding, we have delivered largely on our promises. “Our vision is to deliver 20 years development in the next four years in economic, social and political fields.
We shall complete all ongoing projects and start new ones. We shall touch every community in roads, education and infrastructure. We shall touch every household in wealth creation, security of lives and property, social amenities, political empowerment, political representation and much more. We shall consolidate on the foundation we are building and proceed to the superstructure of prosperity and greatness for our land and people.”
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