Aregbesola urges Osun people to resist PDP’s bribe

Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola
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             Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has urged the people of the state to reject bribes from the Peoples Democratic Party meant to sway them to vote for the PDP in the forthcoming elections.

The media aide to the governor, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, said this in a statement on Thursday.

Aregbesola made the call while campaigning for the candidates of the All Progressives Congress at Atakumosa-West Local Government Area of the state.

He said, “We only need our people to persevere. Our people are ‘Omoluabi’ who cannot be bought with ill-gotten wealth. We have remained with the people and that is our commitment.”

The governor told the people that one of the things the PDP wanted to ensure by forcing a postponement of the election was “to drain the people out and use the period to empower their weak candidates.”

Commenting on the nation’s economy, Aregbesola advised President Goodluck Jonathan to stop playing politics with the nation’s economy.

According to him, Nigeria is losing about N1.7 trillion to oil theft in the Niger Delta. He added that every rural community in the nation would benefit from the proceed of the oil if the oil theft was stopped.

Aregbesola said, “If the barrels of crude oil being alleged to have been   stolen daily are blocked and prevented by the PDP controlled Federal Government which amount to N1.7 trillion, proceeds from such act could have provided about 2000 kilometers of rural roads across the country.

“Nigerians have never had it this bad in terms of hunger, insecurity, corruption, unemployment among others, the worst of it being the economic recession which made a dollar to exchange for 230 naira from 120 inherited by the Jonathan led administration.

“If the wastages the Federal government is noted for are curtailed, no rural community will not benefit from the proceed of crude oil being stolen daily.

“God in his mercy granted president Goodluck Jonathan the last four years as an economic independence period when crude oil was sold at 100 dollars per barrel, but what did the country witness, abandoned projects including the Alagbado-Ota bridge started by Chief Ernest Sonekan ‘s government.”