Tinubu, Aregbesola Slam Jonathan, As Ajimobi Flags Off Re-Election Campaign

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Tinubu, Aregbesola Slam Jonathan, As Ajimobi Flags Off Re-Election Campaign

Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, on Saturday literally stood still as Governor Abiola Ajimobi flagged off his re-election campaign for the February 2015 gubernatorial election, just as national leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) lambasted the federal government for grounding the economy of Nigeria through massive corruption and gross administrative ineptitude.

The historic Mapo Hall, venue of the event, and its environs witnessed a tumultuous crowd, while the national leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun, former governors Segun Oni and Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, former acting national chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande and other leaders of the party also graced the occasion.
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Also on hand in solidarity with the Oyo first lady, Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, were the first lady of Osun State, Mrs. Sherifat Aregbesola and former first lady of Ekiti State, Mrs. Bisi Fayemi among APC women leaders.

Governor Ajimobi, while addressing the gathering, used the occasion to reel out some of his key achievements since he came on board as the state’s helmsman, which had led to the rapid social and economic transformation, unprecedented in the history of the state.

For instance, he said his administration was the first to construct a 7,000-capacity ultra-modern market for traders at Scout Camp, Challenge, Ibadan to accommodate traders displaced from the street free of charge, with the sum of N20 million to trade.

The national leaders of the party, in their respective remarks, lampooned the Peoples Democratic Party-led federal government for mismanaging the country’s resources directly and through acolyte, describing it as a curse and symbol of retrogression, backwardness, poverty and oppression.

Aregbesola alleged, for instance, that Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) was a façade being led by a leading PDP figure and through which billions of accruable oil revenue were diverted to advance the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan.

He alleged that the said PDP figure lifts kerosene at the rate of N40.90 per litre and sell to marketers at N95 who now sell to end-users at N120, leaving a margin of N25 per litre which, according to him, is being channelled to the funding of Jonathan’s re-election campaign through TAN.

Aregbesola warned that another four years of PDP at the national level would spell doom for the country and its people.

Source: Leadership