By Alltimepost.com,
As Nigerians prepare to cast their votes in the February 2015 general elections, President Goodluck Jonathan’s government continues to be the target of attack by Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole who sees it as a corrupt and discredited administration.
The former labor leader hit at the infrastructural profile of the administration and questioned the authenticity of the Government’s N2.4 billion water project in Esan Central Senatorial District of Edo State, which in his word, the government claimed to have been completed and commissioned.
Governor Oshiomhole, in continuation of his campaign for the All Progressives Congress candidates in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government Area of the state last Wednesday, challenged the Federal Government to show the people of Edo Central the location of the multibillion naira water project.
“Even when the PDP Federal Government claims the project has been completed and commissioned, the local people still can’t get potable water,” the governor bemoaned.
“The problem we have today is that in the books of Abuja, PDP says they have brought water to Esanland. If you ask the Onojie of Ugboha, the Onojie of Uromi and all the other Onojies in Esanland, they will tell you that there is no water in Esanland. They came to my office and said they are not going to allow the Vice President to come.”
Oshiomhole queried the People’s Democratic Party-led Federal Government’s claim of completion of the N2.4 billion Water Project, maintaining that no such project was executed in the area.
“For 16 years, year after year, PDP keep promising they will give us power yet no power. APC State Government gave you transformers but you still don’t have light because transmission and generation which are required for the transformers to produce light have been sold by PDP Federal Government to their relatives.”
Oshiomhole also hammered the Jonathan’s administration on what he called lack of job, saying “PDP have failed the nation. Instead of light, they produce darkness. They couldn’t produce jobs hence millions of Nigerians are unemployed and there is no light, industries cannot function. Are we going to allow them remain?”
He also trashed the administration for what he described as lack of courage to confront and deal with the menacing insurgency and general security problems in Nigeria.
His words: “What is insurgent? Where are they sleeping? They took one local government, two local governments, three local governments and they couldn’t respond to the extent they took the village of the Chief of Defense Staff.
This is a serious issue. When the righteous rule, the people rejoice but when the wicked are in power, the people perish.”
“If you do not have light, do you need any other evidence to know that they are not righteous? So I want you to go back to your various destinations and take time to evaluate the performance of PDP in the past 16years”.
He told the mammoth crowd of supporters: “Nigeria at this stage needs fighters to drive the required changes. We need a man of courage.”
“It is not about who have more money, it is about who have clean hearts, who have more determination, who will fight for the people and General Muhammadu Buhari is the man to bring about these needed changes.”
“They say General Buhari has no money but look at it critically, a man who was once Head of State, a man who was once Chairman of PTF, he rose to become Minister of Petroleum and was once a military governor, yet they say he has no money. Is that not clear evidence that he is not corrupt?
How come those that are Heads of State for few years have billions of naira yet the one that has been Head of State, Military Governor, Minister and General has no money.
That shows that Buhari is the man who can fight corruption in Nigeria and if you don’t fight against corruption, our youths will have no future and our people will never have light because the money for light have been stolen by them.”
Oshiomhole promised that the Edo State government will give the sum of N20 million for the reconstruction of the Uromi Market which was recently razed by fire.
The campaign train was at Ubiaja, Esan South East Local Government Area, Uromi in Esan North East Local Government Area and Ugbegun-Ebudin in Esan Central Local Government Local Government where he presented the various candidates, including Mr. Francis Inegbeneki for Senate, Comrade Onikolease Irabor and Gideon Obhakhan for House of Representatives, Henry Okpamen and Anselm Adima and Victor Edoror for House of Assembly.
