Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday, said the
Peoples Democratic Party government of former President Goodluck Jonathan had
destroyed the country.
Oshiomhole,
who was on the entourage of President Muhammadu Buhari to the United States,
said Nigeria had in Buhari a President who talked with confidence unlike “a
President that is blabbing and is not sure of what the issues are.”
The
governor spoke with State House correspondents shortly after meeting with
Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He
said, “The PDP destroyed the country. I mean from the lips of American
officials; senior officials of the State Department said one minister under PDP
cornered as much as $6bn.
“The
man said even by Washington’s standard, that is earth-shattering.
“So,
the PDP is a party that presided over the liquidation of our nation, destroyed
all our institutions, converted the Armed Forces commanders to use them as if
they were political thugs, converted the Nigerian Television Authority to a party megaphone, destroyed the
Department of State Services, went after opposition as if we were rabbits to be
pursued into our holes, compromised even student unions and destroyed
everything that you can think of, and elevated religion to a state affair.
“Under
the party, Israel became a place you visit every week; they placed pastors
against mallams, placed the North against the South, the East against the West,
just to retain power; elevate Obas and Obis with dollars.
“You
guys (journalists) were reporting dollars that were changing hands; when the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was spending much more money than is
available to the Federation Account.
“We are
a very patient people. If we were not a patient people, anybody wearing the tag
of PDP ought to feel very unsafe because you are all victims — all of us here.”
He
added, “Mr. Johnnie Carson, who was the Assistant Secretary of State, when we
visited him in company with Senator (Bukola) Saraki, then as the Chairman of
the Nigeria Governors’ Forum — that was at the eve of President Obama’s first
visit to Africa — and we went to complain, ‘why is Nigeria not on the list?’
“What
he said, for me, was quite instructive compared to what he said last week. Then
I was present when he said ‘you know, we, who see ourselves not just as friends
of Nigeria, each time we think there is light at the end of the tunnel and it
is time to encourage Nigeria to build on it, you would wake up the following
day under President Jonathan to find out that even the tunnel had been
removed.’
“Those
were the words of Mr. Carson. Now last week, this same Carson chaired the
President’s address at the Institute of Peace and he said ‘we now have a man of
enormous integrity; one that has shown so much faith in the democratic process;
one that refused to be frustrated even in the face of massively rigged
elections. He submitted to the judicial process and even when that was
compromised he never gave up.
“‘America
has done its check and we are convinced that this President is the one that
Nigeria needs at this time to regain its leadership of the African continent.’”
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