GOVERNOR of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, on Saturday, declared that Nigeria as a country would have become history if not for the coming on board of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
The governor, who was apparently reacting to an open declaration and support for the presidential bid of former vice -president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, by the Minister of Women Affairs, Hajia Jummai Alhassan, insisted that if not for Buhari, Nigeria would have gone into extinction.
Amosun also said that only health status of President Buhari could prevent him from contesting in the 2019 presidential election.
Amosun spoke in an interview with newsmen after a book launch and scholarship scheme to commemorate the one year remembrance of Chief Lamidi Sofenwa, a renowned educationist, held at the Nobel House College auditorium, Abeokuta.
He noted that the Buhari-led government came at a time the country had security challenges which resulted in loss of lives and property in the North-East region of the country.
Amosun said, “the only thing that can probably prevent President Buhari from contesting is on health ground because if not for this administration only God knows where Nigeria would have been.
“Again, I am saying it, the only thing that can stop him is on health ground. But as we can see today, he is back rejuvenating and very soon it will be clear for everybody to see that he is so well now.”
He advised the minister to resign her appointment as a woman of honour.
He said, “She is entitled to her opinion, but I would have saluted her if she had honourably resigned her appointment, because you can not blow both hot and cold at the same time.
“For somebody to have come out and say such thing means clearly she is even working against the government and she will not want that government to succeed, that is my own belief. I may be wrong, but if I am in her shoes she should have done that and resigned,” he said.
“I don’t think there is a sabotage in that government because she is just an individual and unfortunately I am not from that region. So, I won’t be able to say more than what she said. She should have followed it up with a resignation from that organisation.”
He described Sofenwa as a detrilabised Nigerian, sportsman and a renowned educationist who had contributed in no small measure to development of education sector in Nigeria.
The governor promised to facilitate post-humous national honour for the late elder statesman.
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