Jonathan’s bribes won’t give him victory – Senator

The senator representing Osun East Senatorial District at the Senate, Babajide Omoworare, has said President Goodluck Jonathan will not win the coming presidential election despite allegedly bribing influential Nigerians to support his re-election.

Omoworare said this at a press conference organised by the Osun State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists in Osogbo on Monday.

The senator said the election was postponed to enable Jonathan buy time but he stated that Nigerians had made up their minds to vote out Jonathan because of ineptitude and corruption.

According to the senator, Nigerians are fed up of Jonathan administration which he said entrenched corruption and allowed Boko Haram to kill thousands of Nigerians before taking any step to stop them.

He said, “President Jonathan travelled to meet with the Soun of Ogbomoso whose son is contesting on the platform of our party. He wasted money there. He also went to Oyo to meet with the Alaafin whose son is also contesting. He goes about wasting the nation’s resources.

“The money he should use to construct roads, and to provide other amenities- he is wasting the money. He cannot win even if he empties the treasury. He cannot win in the South West. I am sure that the majority of Yoruba people will not vote for him.”

The senator said the presidential candidate of his party, the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari ( retd.), proved that he is a man of integrity when he ruled the nation even as a military ruler.

While urging Nigerians irrespective of religious and ethnic backgrounds to support Buhari to win the poll, he said that Nigeria would not be able to cope with another four year of PDP rule.

Omoworare lauded the renewed military onslaught against the insurgents, saying Nigeria soldiers were gallant and should be given kudos for pounding the Boko Haram.

He, however, said the success against the insurgent should be probed because of the claim in some quarters that the Federal Government secured the services of mercenaries from South Africa and Russia to fight in the ongoing war against the insurgent.

Meanwhile, the APC has called Jonathan to stand by the promise he made to Nigerians and the rest of the world that he would not remove Prof. Attahiru Jega from office or prevent him from conducting the elections.