by James Sambo

Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives and Presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress, Aminu Tambuwal has stated that President Goodluck Jonathan is leading a “malfunctioning government.”

Tambuwal was reacting to the President’s declaration to seek for re-election, a day after a suicide bomber killed 47 students in a Government secondary school, in Potiskum, Yobe State.

According to Tambuwal, the PDP-led federal government has failed “to deliver good roads, provide security, and enhance development in the country”. He labelled Jonathan’s government a ‘cabal that has hijacked the authority of Nigerians’.

He said, “The government at the centre has failed in several ways and when you have a system that is not working, what do you do? You change to a better system that will deliver. The objective is to deliver good roads, provide security, enhance development in this country.”

“What we have at the moment is a cabal that has hijacked the instrument of authority of the Nigerian people and we will do everything humanly possible come May 2015 to ensure that they are out of the villa.”

The Speaker also stated that Jonathan was voted for by Nigerians out of sentiments that he’s from a minority group. He said it has been proven beyond doubt that he hasn’t “provided good governance”.

“And what we have is a progressive government of APC. When they came here last time, they said you should vote for him that he is from the South-South. But what have the people of the South-South benefited from this presidency in the last few years?”

“When he came, he rode on the sentiment of being a minority, what have the minorities of Nigeria have to show in the last four years? Don’t be deceived again. All of us have been deceived before when we were persuaded that we needed to have this personality in government for some reasons.”

“But it has been proven beyond reasonable doubt that he has not provided good governance. All of us must agree that what we need in Nigeria is good governance and whoever can provide that should be the leader of this country not minding where he is from.”