Nigeria could have collapsed if Jonathan was re-elected –Oshiomhole

Nigeria could have collapsed if Jonathan was re-elected –Oshiomhole

FROM TONY OSAUZO, BENIN

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Os­hiomhole said yester­day in Benin that the country would have collapsed had former President Goodluck Jonathan been re-elected.

He stated this while receiv­ing over five thousand mem­bers of the PDP in the three senatorial districts of the state, including the immediate past Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Power, Patrick Ikhariale, Abbas Braimah, Bisi Idaomi and others into the fold of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benin yesterday.

According to Oshiomhole, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under President Good­luck Jonathan squandered the resources of the state in run­ning their party and individual homes rather than the nation.

Acknowledging that it will take time to clean up the mess of the past, the Governor pointed out that things were changing positively since the coming of President Muham­madu Buhari.

President Buhari has a huge task of rebuilding a country that has been so grossly mis­managed. I believe God loves Nigeria so much that he gave us President Buhari at the time he did. You can imagine if Jonathan had continued in of­fice where we could have been today”, Oshiomhole said.

“For the first time, big people are being asked to ac­count, in the past we only hear of governors, local govern­ment people, commissioners but this time we are seeing Minister of Finance confess­ing like a witch craft how they took money and even co-opted their children so they didn’t just share money for the party they shared for their families. When a minister pays money into her own personal account, we have seen national security being redefined to meet the security of a political party to secure the party in office rather than the nation even in the face of a devastating insurgency”, he added.

He urged the old APC lead­ers not to discriminate against the new comers, saying that “politics is a game of numbers, the more the merrier.”

SOURCES: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/nigeria-could-have-collapsed-if-jonathan-was-re-elected-oshiomhole