PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan was, on Tuesday, told to forget the votes of the South-West, despite his repeated trips to the zone and the series of parleys he held with groups during such visits.
The Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Organisation, which gave the sweeping verdict, said the president erred by thinking the votes of the South-West was for sale.
According to the coordinator of the organisation in Lagos State, Abiodun Faleke, people in the region would not vote for a president who had no record of kept promises.
Faleke, a member of the House of Representatives seeking re-election from the Ikeja federal constituency, reminded the president that a promise he made on the power sector on August 12, 2010 had not been fulfilled five years after.
The lawmaker recalled how President Jonathan promised that Nigerians would enjoy stable power beginning from 2012 at the launch of the road map for power sector reforms at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Reacting to President Jonathan’s frequent trips to Lagos since the shift of the general election from February 14 and 28, Faleke said the people would still vote out the PDP, even if the president moved the seat of power to the Centre of Excellence.
“It doesn’t matter how many weekends the president spends here in the South-West; it doesn’t also matter how much he gives out to individuals, the APC will still defeat him,” he said.
Faleke described as contradiction that the same Yoruba leaders President Jonathan once described as rascals had suddenly become his beautiful brides.
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