The former lawmaker, who represents Iseyin, Itesiwaju, Kajola and Iwajowa federal constituency, Olasupo Abiodun, has described Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari as worse than the regime of the former Ugandan despot, Idi Amin.
Olasupo, who made the observation while featuring on a radio programme, said the President’s flagrant violation of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act and other policy crisis have left Nigerians poorer.
He attributed the action of the Presidency in ordering the CBN to print more than the stipulated five percent of the nation’s naira denominations as abhorrent, saying the nation needed a true leadership to escape the free downward slope of its economy. According to him, “The economy today is in shambles, we are borrowing to service loans while Nigerians are stupefied as to where the nationally-generated revenues are going; we must change the course before this ship is wrecked by APC”.
While reacting to the insinuation that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State was not United in support of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, he said the it was not true as all the candidates of the party from the National Assembly, State Governorship, State Assembly and presidential candidates would enjoy the support of PDP members in the state.
Abiodun noted that as Nigeria has been experiencing bleak economic growth, ethnic disunity and infrastructural decay, the only candidate with the required experience and will to change the country’s fortune for the best is Atiku Abubakar.
He further said, “PDP in Oyo State is in support of Atiku, as party members, we are in support of all candidates of our party. We are talking of Oyo State; Makinde has done everything we want. My community is an example. As an insider, whatever I tell you about this case, you can take to the bank. We have just one candidate, and that is Waziri Atiku Abubakar”.
The former legislator called for a true constitutional amendment effort that will shape Nigeria that will be the pride of the world, saying only a leader that will be realistic and fair in promoting hard, but positively-enduring policies, like Atiku Abubakar could take Nigeria to the Promised Land.
The Quantity Surveyor called on Nigerians, especially Oyo State residents to take their destinies in their own hands and vote Atiku so as to escape further economic depression and poverty.
