CHAIRMAN, All Progressives Congress (APC), in Oyo State, Mr Akin Oke has urged those governorship aspirants in Saturday’s primaries who fail to clinch the sole candidature of the party to remain loyal and not leave the party.
According to Oke, the priority of all aspirants and their followers is the emergence of a candidate that will ensure the party’s success in the 2019 governorship election in the state.
Oke, made this call when a gubernatorial aspirant, Dr Owolabi Babalola, came on a familiarization visit with state executive council members of the party at the state Secretariat of the party, in Ibadan, on Thursday.
He consequently urged those candidates who lose out on getting the party’s ticket to take it in good faith and believe that it is God’s will.
According to Oke, the party was wary of not making a mistake in selecting its candidate hence its decision of the state to adopt indirect primaries.
“God makes people attain position. In choosing Ajimobi as candidate back then, the priority was who will ensure the success of the party in the gubernatorial election.
“So, I am appealing that if by the grace of God, the mantle falls on your shoulders and if otherwise, remain loyal to the party.
“Also, all our aspirants and party members should not leave the party regardless of what happens at the primaries on Saturday.
“Our priority should be the emergence of the candidate that will ensure the party’s victory. So, take everything in good faith believing that it is God’s will,” Oke said.
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Aspirants billed to vie for the Oyo governorship ticket of the APC in Saturday’s primaries are, Owolabi Babalola, Adebayo Alao-Akala, Joseph Tegbe, Adebayo Adelabu, Adeniyi Akintola, Olusola Ayandele, Azeez Adeduntan, Ayo Karim and Adebayo Shittu.
Speaking during the visit, the former Oyo Commissioner for Health, Dr Owolabi Babalola asserted that all aspirants had subscribed to supporting any aspirant who emerges governorship candidate with a view to ensuring that the APC produces the next governor.
“I am assured that we have all subscribed to the process that will dovetail into the emergence of a single candidate. And, whoever that candidate is, will be the very best among us that will fly the flag to ensure that the APC remains the party to beat in the state and in the South West of Nigeria.
“Our people will vote according to their conscience. They are people of history; they are people who share the vision for tomorrow. I am persuaded that our party leadership and members will vote, not according to the dictates of individuals, but according to the values of the APC.
“I have been primed for this position, I have enormous goodwill of our party stalwarts and across the length and breadth of this pacesetter state. I am convinced that I will push an agenda that is pro-poor in Oyo state.
“There has been enough good will on the part of the incumbent government and I will strive not to reinvent the wheel but to give additional traction and to where necessary, strike on the reset button.
“For instance, in education, how do we give incentives to those classroom teachers? How do we manage our resources as to give preeminence to our recurrence, gratuities and timely budgeting for those classrooms will need a small amount of money?” Owolabi enthused.
LIES LIES LIES…….!!!!!
If Buhari was a commodity in the market, it would have been banned because it is a bad product.
Nigeria borrows N2.7trillion in one year to do what? Everything about Buhari is forgery and lies:
0. Presidency borrows $3.1bn usd for road and railway 7 months to presidential election.
1. Buhari himself forged waec certificate
2. His finance minister forged nysc certificate
3. His ministers forged 25billion dollars nnpc contact, then lied till today.
4. In Aso rock clinic embezzlement, documents were forged to cover up. Yet deficit was still short of billions.
5. Buhari himself as protroleum minister till now cut out 50billion naira petroleum account to himself and then forged a cover up. No one can question him on that till now.
6. Assisted by Buhari, Gov. Bello of kogi with inec, forged signatures of the electorate to recall Dino. Thank God kogi people stood their ground.
7. They lie about everything, lie about economy, lie about security, lie about electricity, lie about employment, and even lie about jellof rice.
8. Buhari used 30,000 police officers with Inec officials to rig election in Ekiti for APC.
9. INEC acts on Buhari’s instruction to cancel election result in Osun state just because Adeleke of PDP won gubernatorial election. Then Buhari sends fayemi of Ekiti to woo Omishore to support APC for a rerun after instructing INEC officials to tear ballot papers of those who voted for Adeleke of PDP.
10. They lie about giving ASUU N20bn and ASUU responded immediately to their lie by cautioning to stop the lying.
11. ETC
How many jobs has this government been able to create? 7.9milliion Nigerians who were already employed lost their jobs in just 21 months of Buhari’s administration. Undergraduates are not nigeria’s problems. Buhari is nigeria’s problems. He is supposed to be sent back to school to write waec because he doesn’t have a certificate. He has destroyed Nigeria with his bad policies. You cannot transfer the failures of this government on poor people. This is foolishness.
This is a typical example of how Buhari’s policies has been destroying the country for the past 3 years counting. We have a bunch of clueless individuals in Buhari’s administration. Yet everyday, they boast of their stupidity. What do you expect from a man who cannot produce his waec certificate?
Buhari and APC have completely destroyed Nigeria with very bad policies. It’s a shame that Kenyan airlines has added to the statistics. They lied to us:
LIE NUMBER 1: Corruption is responsible for Nigeria’s economy woes.
The simple question which we all should be asking ourselves is, ‘why is it that EFCC has recovered all these money, from looters, yet nigeria’s economy has not improved and still so bad,? We have all been deceived into believing that it is looted money that is responsible for Nigeria’s economic woes but it is not because one would think that if looted money was recovered, Nigeria’s economy should improve, but this is not the case. The economy is running aground instead. All we do is gabbage in gabage out, swallowing all the lies they tell us, without reasoning. APC has been peddling the lies to the gullible. Meanwhile, EFCC is APC’s mechinery to hunt down all political enemies of Buhari and APC.
LIE NUMBER 2
Oil price is the cause of Nigeria’s economic woes.
They all give low oil price as reason for failed economic policies, but also forgot to mention that Buhari was aware of dynamic oil price before he made the promise to Nigerians that he will make 1 naira = 1 dollar, deceiving Nigerians to get the votes. Secondly they forgot to mention that oil price during past administrations was not static, yet past governments were able to balance dynamic oil prices with good economic policies to buffer the economy, this was the reason Nigeria became the largest economy in Africa. Almost all oil producing country around the world are now stable except the nigerian economy. So you no longer need to wonder why Buhari is compared to GEJ. More than 40 flights have stopped flighing in Nigeria including international flights. Ethiopian airlines wants to buy Arik Air. More than 37 Companies and foreign investors have stopped operation in Nigeria, including the famous tomato factory. In Buhari’s first yr in office, the banking sector and other institutions fired so many employees increasing the percentage of unemployment. CBN rolled out very bad policies that drove investors out of the country which today they (CBN) have reversed, and the list goes on. All these events are not caused by low oil prices. Buhari and his APC government are just a mess. They messed up this country. They destroyed this country with very bad policies.
LIE NUMBER 3
Lack of diversification of the economy is responsible for economic woes.
Yet instead of spending time and resources on diversifying the economy. They go back to look for more oil in Sokoto, Borno, benue states, etc ….that same oil they are blaming as the cause of Nigeria’s economic woes.
Buhari, APC and FG are liars. They have no viable economic policies to the drive the Nigerian economy.