The Ondo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress,
(APC) has said that the people of the state would expresss
their anger on President Goodluck Jonathan in the Saturday
presidential election by voting against his re-election.
The party said Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s claim that the
people of the state preferred Jonathan to its candidate, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari, was a self-deceit.
It challenged Mimiko to point to a single federal project or
intervention executed by the Jonathan government in Ondo
state to show the president’s commitment to the people of
the state.
A statement by Vice Chairman, APC Publicity Committee,
Kunle Adebayo said instead of good life, the citizenry had
suffered failed promises, poverty and gloom like other
Nigerians under the PDP government.
Adebayo noted that the failure of the PDP government to
touch their lives accounted for the reason people had turned
to the APC and Buhari to seek redemption.
He said; “Mimiko, in trying to mobilise traditional rulers,
teachers, workers and youths, boasted to them that
Jonathan’s new tenure will bear an indelible imprint on the
lives of the Yoruba people and that his monumental
achievements in his first four years are confounding and
comforting to the people of Ondo state.
“The Point must be made again that Mimiko’s claims are not
only an insult to the memory and intelligence of the people of
the state, they are the antics of drowning men which all
political opportunists are.
“How can Mimiko hope anybody in Ondo state, particularly the
insulted workers, frustrated youths, betrayed women and
dehumanized traditional rulers, was listening to his tales by
the moonlight?
“In case he does not know, the people of Ondo state identify
Jonathan as the President who treated them like a piece of
trash in spite of the massive votes given to him in 2011 when
he came whimpering as the then all begging, shoeless riverine
boy.
“From inheriting a cash surplus of over N58.4b and zero debt
profile, it is no news that he has plunged Ondo state to an
unprecedented level of indebtedness, retrogression, poverty
and stagnation. As is customary with a bat pretending to be a
bird, Mimiko’s empty boasts and politics of opportunism have
by default exposed the futility of the PDP’s crave for
permanent enslavement of Nigerians.
“Just as Ondo PDP under him has become a symbol of crisis,
confusion, betrayal and corruption, every parent who means
well for the future of her offsprings has also decided to vote
General Muhammadu Buhari who represent hope and rebirth.”