Change must begin with the President, cabinet members – Ladoja

Former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja on Monday faulted the recently launched programme, ‘Change begins with me” by President Muhammadu Buhari.

While speaking with journalists at his Bodija residence, after the Eid prayers, Ladoja said change must start from the President and members of his cabinet.

Ladoja said the President and his cabinet have to lead by example in order to motivate Nigerians to embrace the “Change Begins with Me” campaign.

His words, “It is mixed, look at what Emir Sanusi said. Sanusi does not believe that there is sincerity with the anti-corruption crusade. As long as you have a lot of roadblocks, there will be more corruption. Liberalisation is better. Do you need to bribe anybody to get GSM today? Go and try it in the days of NITEL. They will ask you to go and bring the ladder and you had to bribe them for them to render the service.

”Corruption is not only a public servant or politician thing. It is endemic in us and it is caused by blockade, red tape. Remove the red tape and you will see. Sanusi has said it that the dollar has gone up but there is corruption there.

”There is no corruption and yet some people can buy a dollar at N197 and those that want to employ people and do business can go and buy at over N400 and we want the economy to improve? All these do not add up. Who does he (Buhari) want to please. That is subsidy, if you do it for Muslim you have to do it for the Christians,” he said.

Ladoja also spoke on the postponed Edo election, noting that the APC was not sure of victory, hence the reason for the postponement.

“I think the change starts with President Buhari. Look at what INEC said about the change in date in Edo State election. They said it is colossal waste and nobody has convinced us about the postponement. They cited security reasons. Billions of naira has gone down the drain. We are wasteful.

”I am not in their party. My party has no candidate in Edo. I just know that it is wrong. We have fixed this date for a long time and they first said it was because of WAEC but the date it has been shifted to again also has WAEC exams. Are you now going to ask WAEC to change the date also? We are still playing games. I am sure that if APC were sure that they will win Edo election, they will not have postponed it.”

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