Alaafin of Oyo Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi 111 has urged president Muhammadu Buhari to support Oyo state Governor Senator Abiola Ajimobi to become the Senate president in the next political dispensation.
Senator Abiola Ajimobi who is the APC Senatorial candidate for Oyo South Senatorial district was at the Red chamber between 2003- 2007.
The traditional ruler said in his remark during a stakeholders meeting with traditional rulers with the president and his team at the house of chiefs, secretariat, Ibadan.
According to the Nation Online hundred traditional rulers from Oyo state led by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji and Soun of Ogbomosho, Oba Jimoh Oyewumi met the President, the Vice President and other top party leaders at the consultative meeting.
Alaafin said further that the governor has indeed transformed the state from been known as a garrison command to a modern state upon the assumption of office in 2011.
Addressing the traditional rulers, President Buhari said he was in the state to meet the traditional rulers to thank them for the supporting his administration since assumption of office in 2015
Noting how his administration had faired since 2015, the President said the 16 years of the People’s Democratic Party’s rule could be likened to torment to the people with a dearth of infrastructures despite the availability of immense fund.
The President added that his administration had laid the foundation for the development of the nation with physical infrastructures like the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and the light rail from Ibadan to Lagos which was nearing completion among other projects in the pipeline.
He said “I am here to warn you to please reflect on the conditions we met this country in 2015, where we are now and what we are able to do even with the little available resources to us. I keep on repeating this just as a reminder and I challenge any Nigeria to go to Europe, United States and Asia and check for the 16 years of PDP rule; I know you (traditional rulers) are supposed to be apolitical.
“I challenge anybody to go and check, that for the 16 years of PDP, Nigeria was earning good money and the state of our infrastructure and of our people were worse when we came, the road, the rail were in decay and there was no power. Along the line, some of them admitted that they spent 16 million dollars on power and yet to no avail.
“Once the roads are good, the rail is working and there is power, most Nigerians would mind their own business, they won’t even care about who is in government. But when there is no infrastructure, everybody will sit at home and curse the government.
“I assure you that our plan is to secure the country and improve on the economy and things that will rub on the life of the people. You all know these things more than I do because you sit more around your people day-in and day-out.
“So, please we need you and your constituencies, we appeal for your support and understanding. We assure you that we will not abuse the trust and we will not spare anybody who abuses the trust.”
Source. The Nation
