Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State yesterday said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has failed to give dividends of democracy to the people of the country in 16 years because the party cannot give what it doesn’t have.

Oshiomhole said the PDP-led Federal Government had become the weak link in Nigeria’s federal system, saying the time for change had come for the country to move forward.

The governor said another four years of the Peoples Democratic Party at the federal level would worsen the hardship and sufferings of Nigerians, saying it was a government of deceit.

Speaking at the campaign rallies of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ovia North-East, Ovia South-West and Egor Local Government Areas of Edo State, yesterday, Oshiomhole said: “We have looked at all the indices. The truth is that the Federal Government has become the weak link in our development process. We cannot create jobs because there is no power.

“Everywhere I go to in Edo, people are protesting over blackout. The state government provides the transformers, but private people come to collect the bills whether they give light or not.

“When you watch television, they tell you they have done railways, that trains are working everywhere. Among you here, who has entered a PDP train? Is it on television we will keep seeing it? The Gelegele Port, have they done anything there? Can you have a government that keeps deceiving its people? You cannot fool us forever. The story in Edo is the same everywhere. They have failed everywhere.

“Nobody can give what he doesn’t have. PDP has no answer to the challenges of this nation and therefore cannot solve our problems.

“A government cannot abandon its people to be suffering. Our country has lost virtually everything. Our refineries are closed. We are importing virtually everything when we should be exporting. When General Buhari was Minister of Petroleum, they were building refineries but today ministers prefer to be importing.

“You cannot have a country that imports everything it consumes. So, PDP is effectively carrying our jobs abroad and importing unemployment into the country. More than 60 per cent of our young people have no jobs. If we continue like this, those who have something to live for will be so little that those who have nothing to live for will completely overwhelm us and there will be crisis everywhere”

Governor Oshiomhole urged the people of the state to come out en masse and vote for positive change, which he said the APC represented to restore the dignity of the nation and place the nation on its path to sustainable development and economic growth.

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