Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has expressed confidence that President Muhammadu Buhari will get a landslide victory in South-West in the February 19 presidential election.
He said that Buhari’s overall impressive performance across the country since coming on board was enough reason for the people to vote for him for a second term.
Ajimobi, who is also the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Oyo South senatorial district in the coming election, declared this during a meeting with 67 interest groups in the state, in company with the APC governorship candidate, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, and party chairman, Chief Akin Oke.
Among these were traders’ associations, drivers’ unions, market and food sellers associations, Christian and Muslim bodies, independent broadcasters, artistes and youth groups.
The governor said, “Buhari is not a match for other candidates in the presidential race. This election will indicate if Nigerians really want progress or retrogression. You cannot compare a lion with a cat, although they are both in the cat family.
“It will be an election between light and darkness; an election between pig and cattle egret. It is an election between integrity and corruption. After 16 years of looting, they have come back like nothing has happened.
“They abandoned the most important road in the entire Southwest, if not the country, Lagos-Ibadan expressway for 16 years, Buhari came and started fixing it. He started the light trail rail project along the same axis and it is almost completed.
“I trust our people. They are the most sophisticated when it comes to politics, so they have made up their minds. They will vote Buhari and he will record a landslide victory in the Southwest. We will reciprocate these kind gestures.
“Our unemployed youths are getting N30,000 monthly under the N-Power programme, the Trader Moni is addressing the needs of the ordinary traders, the school feeding programme is feeding millions of pupils across the country every day.
“When we governors could not pay salaries as and when due, he bailed us out on several occasions without discrimination. How can we leave a man with such altruistic gestures and follow those who put us in a mess.”
He also solicited support for all APC candidates in the coming election, including the party’s governorship candidate, whom he described as the most capable, efficient, effective and brilliant among those jostling to succeed him.
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