The campaign rally of General Mohammed Buhari, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) presidential candidate for the April general elections was held in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital yesterday in defiance of the state government’s order that the rally should not hold.
Although, the state government shut the entrance gate leading to Mapo hall, venue of the rally, CPC, nevertheless mounted podium at Bere, Molete, Orita-merin axis of the hall to address the large crowd of party supporters who had stormed the venue as early as 7.a.m.
However, the event could not start as scheduled due to the late arrival of General Buhari who arrived Ibadan alongside his running mate, Pastor Tunde Bakare and other party leaders more than five hours behind the scheduled time of 12.00 p.m.
The campaign train had earlier visited Pastor Enoch Adeboye in Lagos to receive spiritual blessings, and the palace of Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, the Osile Oke-Ona, Oba Adedapo Tejuoso as well as the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona all in Ogun State, for royal blessings.
Before his arrival, popular musicians, Sir Shina Peters and Alhaji Kollington Ayinla entertained party faithful who defied the hot weather to witness the rally.
Addressing party supporters, Buhari said the utmost on the agenda of the party was to ensure true federalism so that each federating unit was allowed to develop at its pace without any hindrance. He lamented the level of decay that had befell the nation’s infrastructure with a promise that his party would bring about the desired change and ensure total infrastructure development if voted into power in the April election. His words “Nigerians are aware of the level of decay in our infrastructure, especially in the areas of road, water, education, health, power among others, but we are more than ready to fix all of them. Emphasis will be placed on road contruction to ensure that food gets to the urban centres from the rural areas at cheaper prices.
We will ensure also that every worker is satisfied with his or her take-home pay and jettison the current situation where the so-called take-home pay does not take workers to the middle of the month.”
He stressed the need to ensure that the coming election was not rigged the way it was done in the past. While urging the electorate to organize themselves and monitor their votes so to ensure that their votes count, “It is not enough to cast your vote, monitor it from the point of casting, to the point of counting and collation; from the ward to the local, and the state levels.” Speaking earlier, the vice-presidential candidate of the party, Pastor Tunde Bakare took the ruling PDP to the cleaners, describing it as the party which had inflicted poverty, hunger and other forms of hardships on the masses of the country. Bakare, who used unprintable words to describe the party, added that the 12 years of governance by the party was nothing but misfortune for the nation. He added that God would punish them for their roles in the nation’s under-development.
The cleric cum politician lamented the abysmal level at which education had been taken reduced by the rudderless style of the ruling PDP, urging the people of the state to reject the ruling party with their votes in the coming elections, saying ,CPC was the only party that could bring the desired change the nation needed.
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