Aregbesola blames Jonathan, PDP for Nigeria’s woes

Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has launched an attack on President Goodluck Jonathan, lamenting that the country under the current administration is being badly managed.

Aregbesola, who spoke at a book presentation to mark the 50th birthday of a front line rights activist, Comrade Amitolu Shittu, said under Jonathan, Nigeria’s economy has nose-dived to the point of near collapse and that Nigerians deserve to know the true state of affairs in the country.

He said: “Politics aside, the truth about Nigeria is that the people currently managing it at the centre, careless about the people but themselves.

The governor added that the situation has gotten so bad in Nigeria that all Nigerians must decide to change the situation and save the country from bad managers who only think about themselves.

He reminded pro-democracy activists and organisations in Nigeria and beyond of the urgent need to reconvene as a strategy towards ensuring the victory of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate for the 2015 election, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).

Aregbesola said the time is now for those who had in the past rendered selfless services to their fatherland by confronting dictatorial governments and installing democratic rule.

“Wherever you find PDP, you will find misery, poverty, under-development. We must remember that the encounter of our people and experience especially in the South West geo-political zone have never brought anything positive. Our people had associated their party with misfortune and till today, they remain the same.”

Earlier, Shittu chided former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida for openly supporting Jonathan, saying it was only corrupt Nigerians like Babangida that would support the current administration which had no good plans for Nigerians.