Former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has advised the people of Edo State to use their votes to sack incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.
Punch newspaper reports online that the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC made the statement on Sunday while commissioning a new 60-bed Specialist Hospital, built by the Governor Adams Oshiomhole government, in Ewohinmi, Esan South East Local Government area of Edo State.
It was disclosed that the hospital has state-of-the-art equipment, 3-bedroom doctors’ quarters and 2-bedroom Nurses’ quarters.
Speaking at the commissioning of the hospital project, Tinubu stated that said with the commissioning of the specialist hospital and other projects in the state, Governor Adams Oshiomhole has introduced infrastructural development revolution to Edo state.
The former governor of Lagos State added that it is regrettable that the sixteen years of the rule of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the federal level has been a colossal waste.
Tinubu said: “What you have in Edo State is common sense development revolution. Good security, employment, potable water supply, agriculture, good road infrastructure, vocational job to train and develop your mind and become independent in life. That is common sense development revolution.
“The only way you can get it at the federal level is to have the voter’s card and vote out the PDP. The sixteen years of the PDP did not produce anything.
“They were here and they did not do roads to reach your communities and they could not give you boreholes.
“We have spent six years now and six years of our arrival with our broom, we have been sweeping the dirt away. We say change from deceit; change from lies; change from excuses.
“Today the country is in darkness because of the deception of the PDP. When you pay a policeman pittance how do you expect him not to take bribe?
“We have built new hospitals and schools in six years. If you want continuity of this development, go and collect your voter’s card and vote for APC. You want water to flow; you want good roads; you want potable water supply, then vote for APC.
“The reward for hard work is more work. So as the APC is doing well in Edo state, you expect more work. You must vote for more work and more facilities. Democracy is not a spectator’s game. If you have no card, go and collect one and vote against the PDP.
“There can be no running water if you don’t vote for APC. The PDP has failed and they will continue to fail.”
Also speaking at the occasion, Governor Oshiomhole said the hospital project is one of the dreams of this administration to extend development to the rural communities.
He said: “For us in Edo State, the fact of being rural does not mean the people are inferior.
Rural life is a function of location and not of quality and consistent with the commitment of our party to have an all inclusive development, the one that seeks to make people feel the impact of governance regardless of location, what you have seen is a practical statement that this is possible beyond rhetoric.
“When I visited here in 2009, the previous government had awarded it, in fact several governments after government had awarded it and they were just using it to siphon money in the name of the people of Ewohimi and the blocks they were using were so bad. We had to demolish that foundation and build a completely new hospital.
“His Royal Highness informed me that this project has been on for over twenty five years and somehow they have given up. I am happy that God has used us to translate this to reality.
“We have built road connecting Ewohimi to other major towns in Esan and shortly we shall be commissioning them.”
On the poor power supply in the community, Oshiomhole said: “It is important for the people to know that as long as the PDP is in power, the people would be out of power.
So whenever you have the opportunity, let the young and old know that the problem of power supply cannot be solved unless the PDP is voted out of power.”
Meanwhile, Tinubu had earlier in Benin City commissioned the rebuilt 6-lane New Lagos road, complete with walkways and street lights.
Nigeria’s former Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) had two weeks ago said the transformation of Edo State is a testimony of how the APC government at the federal level will turn the fortunes of the country around when voted into power in 2015.
Buhari made this known at the inauguration of the Ayogwiri-Apana-Okpekpe road in Etsako East Local Government Area of the state.
He said having inaugurated some other projects in Benin City, he had no doubt that Edo State was blessed with one of the most dynamic governors in the country.
