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•Conducts private visit to HID Awolowo
The vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has declared that Nigeria would begin to experience positive change, beginning from next Saturday when Nigerians would go out enmasse to vote for his party, noting that the way things were going with Nigeria was discouraging.
Osinbajo, while addressing a crowd of supporters gathered at his Ikenne home town in Ogun State at a rally organised by the Ikenne People’s Forum, on Saturday, expressed confidence that Nigerians were ready to vote for change, adding that it was impossible to buy the people of the South-West, “because they are the most resolute people and they have always been committed to change and development.”
“The change that APC is talking about is not just positive change in the lives of the people; it will also affect generations yet unborn. You will see that the people of South-West will vote for change and those who are claiming that they are making inroad into the region will find out the truth,” he said.
This is just as he paid a private visit to the Ikenne home of the Awolowos, where he met with Chief Mrs HID Awolowo, who prayed for him ahead of next Saturday’s election.
Osinbanjo, while addressing newsmen said he had only “come on a private visit to Mama.”
Speaking earlier, Osinbajo berated the unemployment situation in the country, noting that over 80 per cent of the youths were unemployed, a development he described as abnormal and promised that his party would address immediately it gets to power on May 29.
According to him, Nigerians know the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari as an upright person that would keep his promises to fight corruption, address the decline in the economy by creating employment, reiterating that his party, if elected, would carry out free education programme from primary to university levels; give free food to primary school pupils and create 20,000 jobs per state in an emergency measure to halt the rate of unemployment.
Osinbajo highlighted that his party would create employments in the power, information and telecommunication technology and agricultural sectors through what he described as ICT parks where youths could access different jobs as well as employments in the agric sector through the creation of rice farms to enable Nigeria to halt the importation of the product, which he said was to the tune of 4 billion US Dollars.
The vice-presidential candidate also assured the people of Ikenne that when elected, the Federal Government would work with the state government to give Ikenne an ultramodern market and also rehabilitate the Ilekoro and Ikenne-Sagamu roads, among others, promising that Ikenne and all Nigerians would get what is due to them in terms of development.
In his welcome address, the vice chairman of the Ikenne People’s Forum, Chief Adeleke Adesina, rallied the people to vote for Osinbajo, noting that 25 years after the demise of the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Osinbajo was the first person to be picked for such great office, saying: “We do not when next it will be our turn, so we must all vote for Osinbajo, because his success will be Ikenne’s glory.”
Source: Tribune
