The revelation was made on Thursday by the leaders of the APC at the second-term inauguration ceremony of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State.
Punch reported that the
leaders who graced the occasion include the former head of state, Maj.-Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); ex-Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu; a former Interim
Chairman of the APC, Bisi Akande.
APC governors who spoke
graced the ceremony are, Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, Abdufatah Ahmed of
Kwara State, Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Babatunde Fashola ( SAN) of Lagos
State and Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Mr. Moses Adeyemo.
The leaders of the party
reportedly revealed that President Jonathan will leave the Presidency in 2015,
adding that most Nigerians were tired of the President and would rather replace
him with an APC president in 2015.
Speaking in Osogbo,
ex-Lagos governor, Tinubu, who spoke mostly in Yoruba language, asserted that
the Osun electorate resisted those he referred to as “forces of repression”
during the August 9 election by choosing APC, adding that the party’s new
philosophy was “commonsense revolution”.
Tinubu urged every Nigerian
to vote out Jonathan next year, explaining that the revolution APC is talking
about is the ability to use your voter card to send PDP away because they have
failed woefully.
“This revolution will take
care of the elderly ones, create employment and to generate enough electricity
and not to lie like they are telling lies from Abuja. The coming election in
February, anybody who has charms must prepare very well. If you can use rings
fortified with charms, do it; prepare waistbands and the likes. It is not going
to be easy to defeat them. I am grateful to my mother who is in heaven. I was
not trained to be a coward. We are ready for them,” he said.
Tinubu condemned the
PDP-led Federal Government for attempting to rig the Osun State governorship
poll, describing the deployment of 30,000 armed policemen in the state for the
election as a shameless act. He bragged that the APC would reclaim the mandate allegedly
stolen by the PDP in Ekiti State.
Speaking also at the event,
Buhari, who is a leading presidential aspirant of the APC remarked that after
APC lost Ekiti state in June 21, as well as the ousting of Governor Murtala
Nyako of Adamawa State, Osun people raised the party’s supporters morale by
re-electing Aregbesola.
Mrs. Titi Abubakar, who
represented her husband, former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, congratulated
Aregbesola and solicited the support of Nigerians for the APC in 2015.
Governor Aregbesola, while
delivering his speech at the ceremony explained that the party represents
progress and development while the PDP was a symbol of insecurity, poverty and
retrogression.
“Our party, the APC
promises prosperity, national unity and integration, security of lives and
property, job and wealth creation, rule of law and constitutionalism and
deepening of democracy. All these have been showcased in all the states where
our party holds sway in Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti (until recently), Edo, Imo, Rivers,
Kwara, Nasarawa, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kano, Borno and Yobe.
This is what we stand for
and this is why a greater number of Nigerians continue to accept us and
identify with us. Our present travails therefore are temporary. The PDP on the
other hand stands for poverty, misery and insecurity. They are prepared to
sacrifice the entire country as long as their hold on power is intact. Come
February next year, Nigerians are going to say enough is enough. We are going
to beat them because they are beatable. The God that helped us to beat them in
Osun will also beat them for us in the national election. Do not be afraid, do
not despair. Victory is at hand,” he said.
Meanwhile, Governor
Aregbesola, who got his second term when he was declared winner of the August 9
governorship election in the state was sworn in alongside his deputy, Mrs. Titi
Laoye-Tomori by the Chief Judge of Osun State, Justice Oyebola Ojo, who also
administered the oath of office on the two.
Punch
I just pray there won't be war in Nigeria come 2015
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