The former Vice-President,Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the federal government under the leadership of Dr Goodluck Jonathan for implementing policies that do no not have direct benefit on the average Nigerians and his inability to bail the country out of the menace of Boko Haram insurgents
Abubakar who is the presidential aspirant under the platform of All Progressive Congress (APC),noted that most of the policies being implemented by Jonathan was bringing untold hardship on the people.
The APC chieftain said Nigeria under the President Jonathan was seriously sick and that the country needed a surgical operation.
Abubakar at Ire Ekiti weekend during the commissioning of the multi-million naira 32-bed hospital built by Hon Bimbo Daramola , a member representing Oye, Ikole Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, urging all Nigerians to come to and effect a change in the leadership of the country by voting Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) out in the next year’s general election.
“Certainly, Nigeria is not healthy. When you look at the economy and insecurity in the country, you will know that certainly, Nigeria is not healthy.
“The only thing that can salvage Nigeria’s situation is to seize the opportunity to bring about a change by voting in APC.”
Abubakar further described the calls for the removal of the Speaker ,House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal from his position as “irresponsible”
Speaking at the hospital The Joan Taiwo Daramola Memorial Hospital at Ire-Ekiti, the APC chieftain commended the lawmaker for embarking on the gigantic project in assisting the people of his community, saying himself and Daramola shared the same character of dropping from their savings to assist the less privileged in the society.
The hospital which has all its equipments and facilities is to be managed by the Anglican Church of Nigeria
The lawmaker said he built the hospital as a way of giving back to the people who had entrusted him with their mandate in the House of Representatives.
He urged the people of the state not to compromise their well cherish honor and integrity for a bag of rice,or money
“I believe the people of Ekiti surely don’t need stomach infrastructure. Would you forego education for stomach infrastructure? Would you forego healthcare for stomach infrastructure? Would you forgo infrastructural development for stomach infrastructure? “Today Japan is the third economy in the world.
They don’t have the farmland that you have in Ekiti but they have education and technology.
Anybody who is telling you all you need is a bag of rice; no. No, Ekiti people.”
He said without free education that he would not be opportuned of joining others in ruling the country of assisting the people.
The three former governors of the state ,Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo ,Engr Segun Oni,Dr Kayode Fayemi and the Speaker,House of Representatives,Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal commended the initiative of Hon Daramola