GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo
state yesterday declared that the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration
has killed many Edo indigenes due to the alleged refusal by the President to
give ecological funds to areas devastated by erosion in the state and many
other APC states.
He regretted that the President
would play partisan politics with the lives of Nigerians and Edo people in
particularly despite the 95 per cent votes he enjoyed in the state in 2011,
vowing that the President and his party the PDP, would be voted out come 2015.
Oshiomhole also lampooned the Federal government austerity measures due to
fallen prices oil, querying that “ what did they do with our money when oil was
N108 per barrel. They said we should tighten our belt but they gave us no belt,
that is anti people”.
The Governor declare this at the
traditional Urhokpota Ground Ring Road Benin City, where he received the former
Minister of State for Works and PDP Chieftain, Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi and over
two thousand of his supporters into the APC. About 20 palace chiefs led by
Chief Jackson Igbinoba, and different PDP groups one of them led by Chief Arala
Osula, dumped the party for the APC.
Ogiemwonyi said he decided to dump
the PDP after what he described as the failure of the PDP to fix both the
economic, security and other problems bedevilling the nation. He added that
Governor Oshiomhole’s developmental strides in Edo state and the achievement of
other APC governors convinced him that APC means well for the Edo people and
Nigerians in general.
Oshiomhole who received the
decampees into the party gave reasons why Nigerians must vote the PDP led
Federal government out. His words, “What is buried in the name of PDP can never
resurrect because the Bible says, he who die in sin shall perish and languish
in hell. And because PDP died in sin, they killed, they embezzled our money,
they dehumanized our people, they enveloped Benin with flood, converted our
young one to prostitution and reduced Edo from the heart beat to a part of the
country that was now remember only by reference to very negative headlines.
“ It will take PDP more than a
hundred years to pay reparation to Edo people. If anybody imagine what has
happened in this state for six years, then you can better calculate how much
they stole from the treasury of this state and how many miles they set up
backwards in terms of where were are supposed to be. And that is why when the
President came here to say that Edo will fall, I said well who is speaking. Can
a man who is on the ground speak to a man who is on his feet?
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