If Present Government Continues Nigeria To Become Alien Buhari Warns

Nigerians would not recognise themselves in four years’ time if they allow the degenerations under the present administration to continue for another four years the APC, presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari warned yesterday.

The city of Osogbo, capital of Osun State also yesterday stood still as the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo joined thousands of residents in a Walk for Change procession.

The rally tagged “Nigerians walk for change (Buhari/Osinbajo),” drew people from all the adjourning towns and villages who trooped to the streets to join the team on a physical exercise by walking through the major streets. The team and crowd snaked through streets of Oke-fia, Alekuwodo, Olaiya, Oluode market and ended at the Osogbo township stadium.

Buhari spoke at a campaign stop in Calabar just as Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State flayed President Goodluck Jonathan for failing the test of brotherhood in his alleged failures to address the issues of underdevelopment of the South-South people. Also receiving Buhari during another campaign stop in Owerri, Imo State, Governor Rochas Okorocha flayed people of the South East in the frontline of the Jonathan campaign, saying that their support was without recourse to the marginalisation of the region by the administration.

Buhari on his part accused the Jonathan administration of lacking in any plans to fight corruption. Buhari also made a late evening campaign stop in Warri, Delta State where anxious party supporters defied the delay to receive the presidential candidate of the opposition party. Buhari’s first campaign stop was in Owerri where he was received by Governor Okorocha who lashed at the PDP for largely marginalizing Ndigbo in all spheres of the polity.

“Let me use this opportunity to point out that all the communities in the South East need serious attention. There is the need for the creation of more states in the South East”, Okorocha said. Continuing, the Governor called for the construction of the second Niger bridge upgrading of the Sam Mbakwe Airport to an international status, recognition of the Igbos in political positions in the country, among others.

 “It is an undeniable fact that under the PDP, there was no Igbo man occupying top political positions. General Buhari should please remember Ndigbo when you assume office as the president of Nigeria”, Okorocha pleaded. In his response, Gen. Buhari condemned what he described as the “vicious circle of corruption under President Jonathan, adding that “the Goodluck administration does not have any plan to spiritedly fight corruption and maintain security in the country”.