A former Lagos State governor and National Leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu has called on Nigerians to see the forthcoming general elections as a common sense revolution they need to seize to effect the changes needed through their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs.
Tinubu stated this in Kano on Monday evening while speaking with reporters shortly after commissioning the Kano Corporate Security Institute and a number of other projects executed by Governor Rab’u Musa Kwankwaso’s administration. He urged Nigerians to come out en masse to vote for credible leaders.
Calling on Nigerians to vote for the APC, Tinubu said it is the only way the country can be rescued from socio-economnic and political quagmire brought about by the poor leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Tinubu said: “My message is that they should see the forthcoming election as a common sense revolution; common sense revolution to reform, re-change, get relieve, security of lives and property, eliminate corruption, and deception, recovery of the economy.”
Continuing, the APC chieftain said: “This is the first nation that is moved from the platoon of economic prosperity. For oil to be selling at the highest price per barrel ever experienced in the world and to plummet to below 50 per cent and taking the country to recession at the same time; and if you cast your mind back to some few years back, various governors of this country and the entire population are being deceived about the excess crude.”
“You said you want to save for the rainy day, they say we are saving for sovereign wealth—if there is a save for sovereign wealth and if there is a save for the rainy day—Is it not a Tsunami now to move from exchange rate of 110 to 210, 220?
“What is the position of our foreign reserve, where is the savings as regards to the rainy day from the excess crude oil account? Where is the sovereign wealth and how much are they spending to support the Naira every week?
“Why did they have a U-turn and move away from what they called the Dutch auction and the manufacturers that will keep the economy buoyant and going are not being supported because they are having a low foreign exchange to even support the factory and the manufacturing industries? Those are the areas that Nigerians will have to shine their eyes, be determined and create the revolution with their PVC. Please vote for change.”
The former Lagos State governor, however, praised Kwankwaso for what he described as the unique development going on in Kano under his administration, adding that he was not only impressed but proud that such experience is coming from an APC governor.
“What I discovered today during the commissioning is the fact that security and the training is giving priority; and not just an ordinary priority in the area of just human prospects, but organizing a society, building a society to have confidence in themselves and being trained in modern day-to-day challenges of our modern time, which will bring a lot of economic development.
“We all know that without security, there can be no direct foreign investment and economic progress in any society. In a state like Kano—that is a very large state, with a high population density, vehicular density, industrialization is very important; and to have to educate and develop the skill of those who are to provide security, intelligence information and be able to cope with those challenges, the far-sightedness of the government—in the long-run, Kano has been lucky.
“I am extremely not only impressed but I am very proud that we have a vision, a commitment for a vision and sincere value in this government under Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso,” he concluded.
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