Aregbesola
The Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of squandering about $35billion of oil revenue which accrued to his government since its inception.
Aregbesola raised the allegation in Lagos on Friday at the Presidential rally of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Aregbesola, who is also the South-West Coordinator of the Buhari/Osinbajo Campaigns, said it’s either Nigerians wanted misery, poverty, insecurity and other indices of misrule to continue or they want a halt to them.
“The issues involved in the 2015 election are not many at all. It is about sustenance of poverty and abolition of poverty. If you are interested in being poor, if you are interested in misery, if you are interested in hardship, vote PDP,” Aregbesola, in a release by his media aide, Semiu Okanlawon, was quoted as saying.
Continuing, Aregbesola said: “But if you believe there must be an end to poverty, if you believe there must be end to hardship, if you believe that there must be an end to backwardness, the only choice in Nigeria today is APC.”
Accusing the Jonathan administration of squandering the nation’s wealth, the Osun governor said, “Under the watch of President Goodluck Jonathan, at about average cost of 80 dollars per barrel, Nigeria has earned about $35billion of oil and what have we to show for it? Nothing! Poverty unemployment, hunger, insecurity, and what have you. That is why we say all the time that it is bye to all these shenanigans.”
The governor also accused President Jonathan of losing part of the country he inherited six years ago.
He said, “About six years ago, when President Jonathan inherited the Presidency of Nigeria, Nigeria was a peaceful united nation. But within the six years of his presidency, a whole chunk of Nigeria is out of Nigeria. Do you want that to continue? When President came with his name, our better luck became bad luck. APC promises best luck.”
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