Governor Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola who was on Thursday sworn in for the second term has said that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) must be voted out of power in the forthcoming 2015 general elections.
Governor Aregbesola, who blamed the PDP for the current woes in the country, made this known during the second term inauguration at the Osogbo Township Stadium.
Aregbesola stated that his party the All Progressives Congress (APC) will deliver Nigeria from corruption, maladministration amongst other issues in the country which he blamed on the PDP.
According to Vanguard, Governor Aregbesola took a swipe at President Jonathan blaming his administration over the reversal of the nation’s fortunes through its maladministration impoverished Nigerians, particularly in the last six years.
Aregbesola noted that what the country needs at this crucial moment is a radical and total change at the centre so as to rescue the country from its political ebb and economic doldrums.
“We must terminate the regime of self-seeking manipulators who currently parade corridors of power, accruing political profit by turning us against each other and further dividing us along ethnic and religious lines.“Lest we forget, the religion of PDP is poverty. Nigeria is saturated with leaders who are ever so quick to parade platitudes of their respective religion – denying its faith, essence and positive values.
“The result of their politics of division is that Nigerians are poorer in the last 16 years whereas Nigeria as a country has never been richer save for recent months when oil price has declined. This manifests again in their continued lawlessness evidenced in the desecration of the National Assembly and the travesty at Ekiti Assembly.
“They have demonstrated without doubt their inability to protect Nigerians and the territorial integrity of our country. We must therefore be determined to vote out the party that has brought us to this sorry pass. We must show them the way out. We must let them know that on their way to hell, they will walk alone.
“Our party, the All People Congress (APC) promises prosperity, national unity and integration, security of lives and property, job and wealth creation, rule of law and constitutionalism and deepening of democracy.”
He described the journey to Thursday inauguration of his second term as a road, though rough and thorny, but one he planned for with his innovative programmes and by making the people centre of focus of his administration in the last four years.
“We are here to celebrate democracy as the ultimate instrument of political empowerment ever bequeathed to humanity,” Aregbesola said.
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