*Says Buhari’s regime worse than Uganda’s Idi Amin
By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
Former House of Representatives member representing Iseyin, Itesiwaju, Kajola and Iwajowa Federal Constituency in Oyo State, Hon. Olasupo Abiodun has alerted that the only candidate with the required experience and will to change the country’s fortunes for the best, is Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Featuring on Inspiration 100.5 FM in Ibadan live interview programme, ” People’s Focus “, Hon Abiodun said Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari is worse than the regime of the former Ugandan despot, Idi Amin Dada as the country has been experiencing bleak economic growth, ethnic disunity and infrastructural decay.
According to the former House of Representatives member, ” the economy today is in shambles, we are borrowing to service loans while Nigerians are stupefied as to where the nationally-generated revenues are going, we must change the course before this ship is wrecked by APC.”
Stressing that the time has come for Nigerians to critically look at our choices, saying,” Nigeria has been so fragmented” hence the need for Nigerians to look for the candidate with the required experience and will to change the country’s fortune for the best is
” At this point, we need to critically look at our choices. Nigeria has been so fragmented. We don’t need to play ethnic cards now.It is time to elect a leader that will say this is the situation and this is the way to go about it’.
The former Rep member added, ” it will not be an easy solution but at the end of the day it will pay us all, I know Nigerians are ready to make the sacrifice”.
Speaking further, Hon Abiodun called for a true constitutional amendment effort that will shape Nigeria that will be the pride of the world, saying only a leader that will be realistic and fair in promoting hard but positively-enduring policies like Atiku Abubakar could take Nigeria to the promised land.
“In 2019, Atiku said sell NNPC and they said he was a thief. Now it has been privatized. Go and check the records of NNPC, it has been on the negative. It is time to elect a leader that will say this is the situation and this is the way to go about it. It will not be an easy solution but at the end of the day it will pay us all, I know Nigerians are ready to make the sacrifice.
According to Honourable Abiodun “From 2015 to 2020, Close to 300billion naira has been used for turnaround maintenance for the four refineries that have not contributed anything to the nation’s purse all the while. In 2021 another 600billion was apportioned for the same thing to be delivered before 2026.
“Now we have Dangote Refinery that is gulping just 19billion dollars. With its own ports and other facilities. Let the regions control their resources. Amend the constitution to reflect this. The rest are grammars. There is urgent need to look at our constitution and make amendments.
“One of the luckiest Nigerians is President Muhammadu Buhari, every hard policy has been taken in by Nigerians without a whimper but during the time of GEJ, the whole nation rose against just the single effort to privatize the downstream sector and to stop fuel subsidy, even Buhari said it was a scam, today we can see that it is not just subsidy that is a scam but Buhari himself.”
Commenting on PDP in Oyo state, Honourable Abiodun said “PDP in Oyo State is in support of Atiku, as party members, we are in support of all candidates of our party. We are talking of Oyo State, Makinde has done everything we want, my community is an example. As an insider, whatever I tell you about this case, you can take to the bank. We have just one candidate and that is Alhaji Waziri Atiku Abubakar.”
