by Kolapo Olapoju
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, says the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), President Goodluck Jonathan and running mate, Namadi Sambo, will lose their respective states at the February 14 presidential election.
According to Odigie-Oyegun, the president will lose Bayelsa state, while the vice-president will fail to win Kaduna state.
While speaking on Sunday, February 1, at a luncheon organised for APC leaders in the Edo South senatorial district, in Benin, Odigie-Oyegun said the ruling party was afraid of the outcome of the elections.
He said: “I am shocked at the kind of crowd I see in our various campaign grounds. For now, we have secured over 20 million votes. In Bayelsa and Kaduna states, we will defeat Jonathan and Sambo.”
Speaking further, Odigie-Oyegun stated that the leadership of the PDP had been using all means and “unknown persons” to undermine the polls because it was apparent that they would lose the election.
He said: “President Goodluck Jonathan and PDP are running scared of the February 14 presidential election. It is obvious to them that they will definitely lose this election. They are using all means, through unknown people, to scuttle the elections. But I can assure you that elections will hold and we will defeat them.”
WE DID IT 4 YEARS AGO – NIGERIA LET’S DO IT AGAIN.
When President Goodluck Jonathan became president he was quickly confronted with an unexpected rise in insurgency funded by the very same people who did not want him to succeed and who would turn around and use this to assess his performance or lack thereof.
The president had to deal with saboteurs both within and outside and his government, how can you win this type of war waged on the basis of who you are and where you come from? Things that the president is not responsible for and cannot change. How can you win a war that has primarily turned to into an ethnic and religious one? All over the world the war against terrorism has taken many years to fight and still the end does not seem to be in sight.
Despite all those odds President Jonathan has made formidable strides in all other sectors. Today, Nigeria is the number one economy in Africa and one of the fastest growing economies in the world. This is to the eternal shame of those actively trying to destabilize the country, and afterwards declare the President incompetent.
Jonathan took on corruption in fertiliser and seed distribution, ending four decades of corruption in the sector and saving the government over N25billion in 2012 alone. Through his transformation in Agriculture he reduced food import bill from N1.1trillion in 2011 to N648billion in 2012. The road networks are being rehabilitated, railways have been resuscitated. Although there is still more work to be done there has been real progress in the last four years.
We have gone too far to turn back now. Vote Jonathan to keep us moving forward.