Before he ventured into active politicking, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, is one character who would find one fault or the other in the administration of any present or past political office holder.
But ever since his emergence as an active political actor, the music has since changed.
Perhaps because of his membership of the main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), the Edo State governor was at the weekend quoted as calling on all Nigerians to ensure that they cast their vote for the presidential candidate of the APC, retired Major General Mohammadu Buhari in the 2015 elections in the country.
Particularly stating many reasons this should be, Oshiomhole argued that, "We must vote General Muhammadu Buhari. It is for our own survival. It goes beyond tribal sentiments."
The Edo State governor further knocked the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stating that it has reduced Nigeria to a huge joke in the comity of nations on the reason of its inability to fight insurgency and the massive corruption killing the nation.
In his words; "The most worrisome of them all is that in 1999, PDP government was handed 774 local government areas and as we speak now, Boko Haram controls about 30 local government areas and if they continue to rule, they will get here.
"We have the best soldiers in the world, they go to other countries for peace keeping. How come they now say our soldiers are now running from common insurgents? For 16 years, they have not equipped our military.
"They extorted our unemployed graduates all in the name of scam recruitment exercise. You cannot continue to vote for a party that has lost every sense of responsibility and reduced our country to a huge joke even within the African continent.
"This coming election will be a decisive one. We have a presidential candidate that has courage; a presidential candidate that will fight corruption and you will be counting the casualties. He will not be like those who say they are fighting corruption and nobody is falling.
"Buhari was a military governor and later served as Minister of Petroleum before becoming the military Head of State and despite having held all these positions, he never amassed public funds to himself to become rich.
"He is the kind of man Nigerians needs. A man that will fight corruption, instill discipline and ensure that the poor are not cheated.
"Buhari built Kaduna and Warri refineries. How can they say all our refineries are good and yet we are importing products and because we are importing, that is why petrol and kerosene prices have refused to reduce. If our refineries are not working, where will our children studying electrical, petroleum, chemical and mechanical engineering work after graduation?
"If the PDP could not do refinery in 16 years, do you want to give them another chance to fail? That is why Nigeria needs Buhari."
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