Aregbesola requests Nigerians to vote out Jonathan

Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola

The Osun State Governor, Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola, has asked Nigerians to vote out President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party next year as the first step to rescue the country from insecurity and bad governance.

The Governor's media aide, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, put forth that the governor said the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) came at the right time to rescue Nigeria from total destruction.

He said, “What Nigerians require is a careful easing out of Jonathan and an installation of a government that knows what to do with power to transform the lives of the masses."

“Our people can distinguish between the selfish and the selfless. Those who voted for me in the August 9, 2014 election in Osun State have another assignment on their hands. If you voted for me and you don’t vote for Buhari and our representatives in the next elections, you have missed it.

“Don’t fight. Don’t carry cutlasses, guns or any other thing. Just go to the polling booths on that day and vote for the APC. That is the power we all have to rescue ourselves from these elements. “If we love ourselves, our towns and our country, we must all promote Buhari and campaign for him vigorously.”

Aregbesola recalled that Buhari rescued “Nigeria from the jaws of death in 1983 when he toppled the administration of President Shehu Shagari” of the defunct National Party of Nigeria. The governor, however, said that it was curious that despite the huge fund realised by the country from sale of rock oil in the past years, Nigerians were being made to suffer just some months after the crash of price of oil.

He said, “Jonathan and PDP cannot be excused from the various crises confronting the country today. A country that sold crude oil above $100 for more than three years must be asked what it has done with the huge resources that accrued to it.

“The responsibility for the economic tragedy that we are witnessing in Nigeria today rests permanently and absolutely on the PDP and its government at the federal level. There is no way that the party and its government can be excused. As a first step to salvage our nation, we must vote out PDP.