Former presidential assistant,
Reno Omokri, has condemned recent comments by Osun state Governor, Rauf
Aregbesola against President Jonathan and the PDP.
In a statement on Tuesday, Omokri
said Aregbesola is a “lazy talkative” and a “confused man suffering from verbal
diarrhoea”
Omokri said blaming Jonathan and
the opposition for his (Aregbesola) inability
to pay salariesis another one in the long list of blame gaming the All
Progressives Congress (APC) governments at all levels are well known for.
“It is not surprising that the
usually loquacious Governor Aregbesola has been quiet about the $25 billion
scam at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and chooses to distract the
public with this fallacious revision of history. To put things into
perspective, this scam is the single largest scam in the history of Nigeria since
1914”, he wrote.
“For the avoidance of doubt,
calamity did not strike the Nigerian economy on June 2014 as alleged by
Governor Aregbesola or at any other time that former President Jonathan
governed Nigeria.
“Perhaps Governor Aregbesola is
confused and meant to say August 2016 when Nigeria officially entered into
recession for the first time in 25 years due to the mismanagement of the
economy by the APC administrations at all levels.
“Contrary to Governor
Aregbesola’s verbal diarrhoea, the Jonathan era, spanning 2010 to 2015,
witnessed an era of unprecedented growth in which Nigeria’s Gross Domestic
Product consistently grew at over 6% per annum and our economy became the
largest economy in Africa and the third fastest growing economy in the world according
to CNNMoney. In that time frame, inflation was at single digit rate, the Naira
was stable at under 200 Naira to a dollar and petrol sold at ₦87 per liter.
“Rather than blame Dr. Jonathan
or the PDP for his massive failure in office, Governor Aregbesola is advised to
look at Anambra state where the state government is not dependent on the
Federal Government but has creatively come up with ways to generate revenue
without taking loans or the bailout handed out by the APC led Federal
Government.
“Anambra has become self
sufficient in food production and is exporting agricultural produce to Europe
and Asia whereas Osun state under Governor Aregbesola which has a larger and
more fertile land mass is borrowing left right and center and failing that,
begging for funds from national and multinational institutions.
“My question to Rauf Aregbesola
is whether the Governor of Anambra has two heads whereas Aregbesola has only
one? The answer is that the Anambra state government is not headed by a lazy
talkative who believes that all there is to governance is to wait for monthly
manna from Abuja.
“No matter how much federal
allocation you give a governor, if he has a consumer mentality, it will never
be enough. Aregbesola is an example. No matter how little federal allocation
you give a governor, if he has a producer mentality, it will be turned into
more than enough. Peter Obi and Willie Obiano of Anambra are examples.
“Thankfully, the great people of
Osun state have seen through the emptiness of their Governor and his APC which
is why they voted overwhelmingly against them and for the Peoples Democratic
Party in the recent Osun West Senatorial District election where the PDP
candidate, Ademola Adeleke, trounced the APC’s candidate 97, 280 to 66, 115.
“If Governor Aregbesola would
only sell the tens of cars in his convoy, reduce the hundreds of millions it
takes to run his office, curtail the millions he spends on propaganda and then
invest that money in income generating ventures like farms, poultries, micro
finance institutions and similar enterprises, he will be able to pay his civil
servants instead of passing the buck and blaming Dr. Jonathan who left office
almost three years ago.”
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