The senator representing Osun East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Babajide Omoworare, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan will not win the coming presidential election despite allegedly bribing influential Nigerians to support his re-election.
Omoworare said this at a press conference organised by the Osun State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists in Osogbo on Monday.
The senator said that the election was postponed to enable Jonathan buy time but that Nigerians had made up their minds to vote him out because of ineptitude and corruption.
He said, “President Jonathan travelled to meet with the Soun of Ogbomoso (Oba Oladunni Oyewumi), whose son is contesting on the platform of our party. He wasted money there. He also went to Oyo to meet with the Alaafin of Oyo (Oba Layiwola Adeyemi), whose son is also contesting. He goes about wasting the nation’s resources.
“The money he should use to construct roads and to provide other amenities, he is wasting the money. He cannot win even if he empties the treasury. He cannot win in the South-West. I am sure that the majority of Yoruba people will not vote for him.”
The senator said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari ( retd.), proved that he was a man of integrity when he ruled the nation even as a military ruler.
While urging Nigerian irrespective of religious and ethnic backgrounds, to support Buhari to win the poll, he said that Nigeria would not be able to cope with another four years of Peoples Democratic Party rule.
Omoworare lauded the renewed military onslaught against Boko Haram, saying Nigerian soldiers should be celebrated for their gallantry.
He, however, said that the recent success against the insurgents should be probed because of the claim in some quarters that the Federal Government secured the services of mercenaries from South Africa and Russia to fight in the ongoing war against the insurgents.
Meanwhile, the APC has called Jonathan to stand by the promise he made to Nigerians and the rest of the world that he would not remove Prof. Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, from office nor prevent him from conducting the elections this year.
Source: Punchng.com
