BENIN CITY-GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State says the 16 years rule of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the country has re-
partitioned Nigerians along ethnic and religious divide, saying that the situation had not only weakened the foundation of our unity “but has also played brothers against brothers, leading to so much bloodshed”.

He therefore said the only solution to the nation’s problems was for Nigerians to vote for change come 2015, asserting that the PDP led Federal Government has shown incompetence in fixing the problems despite their 16 years reign so far in the country. The governor stated this while speaking to Newsmen shortly after attending the 22nd convocation ceremony and the 50th anniversary of the Auchi Polytechnic.

The Governor admonished the PDP to leave the stage and “do soul searching to know why after 16 years in power, they have not fixed power, they have not fixed education, they have not fixed the health sector, they have not fixed the roads, they have dashed the expectation of the youths and they have polluted the political atmosphere and they have weakened the foundation of our national unity, they have re-partitioned the country along religious divide, along ethnic divide, they have played brothers against brothers, sisters against sisters.

“They are buffeting us with primordial sentiments
in place of issues of development and the country
is weaker today than it was before. We need
people who fought to keep Nigeria together to
come back and re-fix what PDP has broken and it
is all about all of us today. Nigerians should vote
for change, even PDP needs change, you can see;
the internal contradictions within the PDP is like a
weak fabric; the more you patch it, the more it gets
torn and after 16 years, even PDP will agree that
they haven’t delivered on the promises of
democracy” he said.

He continued, “Look at the newspapers, they have
issues today because the cost of production is
going up because of escalating cost of procuring
diesel because you are still not able to print with
power inspite of all the reforms and deforms of the
power sector. Look at the typical newspaper today,
you don’t find products adverts what you find is
obituary, birthdays , endless congratulatory
messages .

“The Private sector is dead and that is why you are
not getting adverts for products and you are not
going to be able to create jobs if you don’t revive
the private sector and as you can see even though
between 1999 till date, the oil sector has
performed better than it was in the previous ten
years”.

Asserting that the Federal Government must stop
complaining to Nigerians about the drop in oil
price, Oshiomhole recalled that “during the regimes
of Abacha and Abdulsalami, oil price dropped to
$10 so Nigeria has never had it so good since
democracy, it picked up to $140 around 2006 and
even now that we are complaining, it is about $60
to $65 so relative to the past, it is still a god price
but like they say no nation has enough to satisfy
the greed of leaders but if we manage what have
well, we have enough to meet the basic needs of
our people.

“And there is no question that our people are
living in denial, in the midst of plenty but I am
even more worried about the deliberate efforts to
weaken unity in order to create all kinds of divide.
All of a sudden, the Nigerian Army that is reputed
all over the world to have fought and to be helping
to secure neighbouring countries like Sierra Leone,
Liberia, Mali, Sudan and others when they witnessed internal crisis, now it is our turn to look inwards and we are told that our soldiers are running, what has gone wrong?

“What has changed that we are no longer the giant? That we can’t even get arms to buy in official markets, we have to go underground? Are we under sanctions by who and why? Why are we not earning respect, why are we not trusted? So for me, even the PDP will recognise that they need time to go and rest so that they can ask themselves some soul searching; that how come that in 16 years we left the country weaker than we met it.

“Then the change forces which I belong to will then learn from their own failure and of course with the logic of change, re-order our national priorities, evolve a more judicious application to our national resource and lay emphasis on production rather than importation and give the Nigerian young people the basis of hope and a basis to remain loyal to the Nigerian state”.

www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/oshiomhole-enjoins-nigerians-vote-change-come-2015/

yes until they put Nigeria ahead of their selfish desire

Oshiobaba is spot-on!
PDP need some time of rest from misruling Nigeria.

Oshio Baba, I believe you, you have the word, you have the carisma. The change has come.
GMB 2015.

That is the way it is - Things should never be the same ..