The National Coordinator of a Yoruba group, Odua Peoples
Congress, Gani Adams has explained why he boldly supports
President Jonathan and his re-election into office. According
to him Jonathan has provided 15,000 jobs for South-West
youths, and his boys have secured about 5000 of the jobs
already, so why shouldn't a man like that be supported?, he
asked. Hear him;
“The allegation is that the Federal Government gave us a
contract: Pipeline security. What is the security of pipeline to
the OPC? We have been running this organisation without
getting a dime from any government but most of the security
agencies saddled with the responsibility of protecting the
pipelines have failed; people were dying every day.
“Nigeria was losing more than N3bn everyday to the activities
of the vandals and the agitation of that contract started from
Dr. Fredrick Fasehun one and a half years ago and you know
the bureaucracy of Nigerian ministries. It was a long process
and it was just granted and it will empower nothing less than
5,000 youths from my side.
“Altogether, that is about 15,000 jobs for Yoruba land. Will
you deny Yoruba youths the opportunity of getting 15,000
jobs because of politics?”, he said.
Adams made this statement while reacting to the allegation
by the APC that Jonathan bribed ethnic militias with N9bn to
scuttle the elections. He also said APC was only being
hypocritical because most of its leaders had oil licences. He
said the major reason they were against Jonathan was
because their licences were due to expire in September and
they feared he would not renew the contracts