Oshiomhole enjoins Nigerians to vote for change come 2015

BENIN CITY-GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State says the 16 years rule of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the country has re-partitioned Nigerians along ethnic and religious divide, saying that the situation had not only weakened the foundation of our unity “but has also played brothers against brothers, leading to so much bloodshed”.
He therefore said the only solution to the nation’s problems was for Nigerians to vote for change come 2015, asserting that the PDP led Federal Government has shown incompetence in fixing the problems despite their 16 years reign so far in the country. The governor stated this while speaking to Newsmen shortly after attending the 22nd convocation ceremony and the 50th anniversary of the Auchi Polytechnic.
The Governor admonished the PDP to leave the stage and “do soul searching to know why after 16 years in power, they have not fixed power, they have not fixed education, they have not fixed the health sector, they have not fixed the roads, they have dashed the expectation of the youths and they have polluted the political atmosphere and they have weakened the foundation of our national unity, they have re-partitioned the country along religious divide, along ethnic divide, they have played brothers against brothers, sisters against sisters.
“They are buffeting us with primordial sentiments in place of issues of development and the country is weaker today than it was before. We need people who fought to keep Nigeria together to come back and re-fix what PDP has broken and it is all about all of us today. Nigerians should vote for change, even PDP needs change, you can see; the internal contradictions within the PDP is like a weak fabric; the more you patch it, the more it gets torn and after 16 years, even PDP will agree that they haven’t delivered on the promises of democracy” he said.
He continued, “Look at the newspapers, they have issues today because the cost of production is going up because of escalating cost of procuring diesel because you are still not able to print with power inspite of all the reforms and deforms of the power sector. Look at the typical newspaper today, you don’t find products adverts what you find is obituary, birthdays , endless congratulatory messages .
“The Private sector is dead and that is why you are not getting adverts for products and you are not going to be able to create jobs if you don’t revive the private sector and as you can see even though between 1999 till date, the oil sector has performed better than it was in the previous ten years”.
– Vanguard