Jonathan Has Improved Yorubas' Lives – PDP
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| President Goodluck Jonathan |
The director of media and publicity of the Oyo state chapter of the PDP presidential campaign organisation, Alhaji Kehinde Olaosebikan, made the statement on March 8, 2015, in Ibadan, This Day reports.
Olaosebikan was reacting to the claim by the director of publicity of the Osun state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kunle Oyatomi, that the Yoruba race had suffered the most painful degradation under Jonathan’s administration.
According to Olaosebikan, all painful, vicious and fatal degradations and neglect suffered so far since 1999 by the Yorubas were inflicted on them by the APC national leader, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Olaosebikan said that the APC was working against the interests of the Yoruba nation and retarding the growth of the region.
“Just like he has been doing to other parts of the country, President Jonathan has been very fair to the Yoruba race giving them deserving top government appointments and attending to the infrastructural decay in the South-west occasioned by the eight years of total neglect the region suffered in the hands of former President Obasanjo.”
The PDP spokesman claimed that Obasanjo had not given the Yoruba their fair share of federal appointments during his eight-year tenure, while Goodluck Jonathan has been forthright in ensuring that the Yorubas were treated fairly.
Talking about infrastructural development, Olaosebikan noted that Obasanjo had turned the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway into a death trap killing scores of people daily. He also accused the former president of being unable to find a solution to the decay of the road for a total of eight years. Goodluck Jonathan in his turn not only found a solution to the road, but his administration has been successfully working on its expansion and rehabilitation.
According to Olaosebikan, in 1999 Obasanjo came to Ibadan with pageantry to commence the dualisation of the Ibadan–Ilorin expressway, raising the hopes of the Yorubas. But when Obasanjo left office eight years after, less than 10 per cent of the road was done. Today, in less than four years of President Jonathan, the Ibadan–Oyo part of the expressway had been completed while the remaining Ogbomoso– Ilorin portion is nearing completion.
Stressing the president’s achievements in the educational sector, the Jonathan campaign spokesman mentioned that a new federal university was built in Oye Ekiti in Yoruba land for the children of the masses, among the 14 his government have built in just four years. Obasanjo built the only university in his own town, Bell University, Ota, for the children of the rich only.
“In terms of administration, it is a known fact that the Yorubas right from the times of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, had been advocating for a sovereign national conference to correct the imbalances in the structure of the country where for instance, a state like Kano is having 44 local government areas and our own Lagos with the largest population in the country has just 20. With local government as a federating unit, Kano will forever get more than Lagos in revenue and other resources of Nigeria.
“President Jonathan, distinct from the leaders of the APC, saw the need to correct this and others in our faulty federalism and convoked the National Conference which has now resolved to make only states as the federating unit of Nigeria. Not only that, each region, similar to what we had during the time of Awolowo, can now grow at its pace with its own constitution, police, railways, refineries and so on.”
Finishing the statement Olaosebikan expressed his confidence that “Buhari and his cohorts of liars, tribal and religious bigots will fail in the South-west.”
Recently, Jigawa state governor, Sule Lamido, has given his assurance that the southwest geopolitical zone would not vote for the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, because that would place the APC national leader, Senator Bola Tinubu, as the leader of the Yoruba race.
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