Governor Fashola:"I Will Support Oshiomhole Presidency In 2015 "

Benin City - Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) on Saturday promoted his Edo State counterpart, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole as the best material for the presidency come 2015 general election.

 He promised to support Oshiomhole if he decides to contest the presidential election next year.

He spoke at a youth summit in Benin City organized by the Edo State government under the theme: Nigeria’s Centenary: Defining the Issues and Setting Agenda for the Future of our Youths. Fashola said,
“If Governor Adams Oshiomhole decides to run as president of this country, he will have my vote.

He is the kind of leader that Nigeria needs. I say that because, I have spent five memorable years of my life in Benin City as an undergraduate and as a Youth Corper and they are very fond memories that I hold dear in my heart today.”

On his part, the host governor urged the youths and adults to discountenance the comments of alarmists fanning the embers of disunity and disintegration of Nigeria by avoiding the mistake of judging the future of Nigeria by the failure of its past and present leaders. Oshiomhole appealed to the youths not to give up on the nation.

He stated that the future of the country is in their hands because foreigners can only assist but cannot solve Nigeria’s problems. Oshiomhole argued that every nation has its own history and reiterated that the unity of the nation was not negotiable since the Nigeria has come to stay.
“As a people, what we should think about is how to get our people properly managed in such a way that the wealth of this great country is expressed in the quality of life of the citizen. How do we address the paradox of a nation: so rich and yet its people get poorer?
How do we raise the issue of how the promise of democracy can be fully realised if the Federal Government continues to pocket 52 per cent and ask all the 36 states and the FCT to share 26 per cent and the rest to be shared by the 774 Local Government Areas?” the governor asked rhetorically.

[National Mirrior]