He has repeatedly lampooned the Jonathan
administration for allegedly plundering the nation’s wealth.
Oshiomhole’s latest criticism came
on Friday while addressing leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in
Edo.
He said if the money allegedly
diverted under the Jonathan-led regime is shared among Nigerians, everyone
would be “rich”.
The former labour leader
said there is a need to constantly reiterate that the 16-year reign of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) “plunged Nigerians into poverty”.
He said the APC under President
Muhammadu Buhari has been making efforts to “pull us out of that hole”.
“It is our task as party activist to
painstakingly explain to our people in the rural areas to understand who dug
the hole that led to what we are experiencing today as a nation and the effort
by President Muhammadu Buhari to gradually pull us out of that hole to the
surface and begin to push and uplift us upward to that level in which every
Nigerian will have to say I am a proud Nigerian,” Oshiomhole said.
“Poverty is not an act of God, it is
the result of our economic history. And when you look at how much was stolen
under the watch of Jonathan as president and the revelations the governor of
Gombe state made, if you distribute the kind of money that was diverted under
the PDP regime under President Jonathan, to 180 million Nigerians, each of us
will have a swollen pocket.
“And we must help our people to
appreciate that the challenge of rebuilding a house that was rocked beyond
foundation, to build a complete new foundation cannot be an overnight work.
“What is important is that there is
a commitment to refix, and the President has broken new grounds which may not
have been amplified to a level that the rural people can see them.”
Oshiomhole, who recently declared
his intention to contest the position of the national chairman of the APC,
further said Buhari will be re-elected due to his achievements.
“I am very confident that we will
win the next general election, have our President re-elected, have more governors
elected under our platform, have more of our party members elected in the
states and National Assemblies so that come February next year we will not only
form a Federal Government we will have overwhelming majority in the National
Assembly,” he said.
“We are preparing ourselves in
getting the truth ready so we can engage. In Edo state, those who participated
under the PDP philosophy of share the money, those who collected money for
either their campaign or their personal interest, are now being called to
account for it.”
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