From Bode Durojaiye, Oyo.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for House of
Representatives in Oyo Federal Constituency, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, has warned the Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory, Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, against what he called ‘barbaric and unconscionable criminal outburst’’ on the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
The minister, in an interview granted a weekly newspaper last Sunday, had said the APC, under the leadership of Tinubu has proven to be a parasitic leadership, sucking the blood and the commonwealth of the South-West.
Adeniyi, who spoke on Monday at a crowded rally in Oyo town, said rather than hide her face, be sober and seek forgiveness of Nigerians and the Yoruba in particular for her master’s administration’s insensitivity to corruption and impunity which had created fertile ground for violent militancy, the minister was busy polluting the already-tensed
political atmosphere with defecation of lies.
“The unabated waves of terror attacks and series of deadly bomb blasts by the callous, devilish and demonic militant movement, Boko Haram, in the Northern part of the country, had in the last three years continued to heighten and exacerbate the palpable state of insecurity in the land. The incessant bombings, which have claimed many innocent
lives, as well as the abduction of over 200 Chibok School girls plus others, have continued to generate wide spread global concern, outrage and condemnation till today under the watchful eyes of Mr President. It was recently, through the assistance of Chadian and other multi-national forces that Boko Haram insurgency are being curtailed. Where are the abducted Chibok girls?”
He added that due to criminal extravagance and prodigal antics of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led Jonathan administration, a readily available army of youths are on the major streets of Nigerian cities and ever ready to be mobilised and take up arms in the guise of political parties, ethnic chauvinism, religious sentiments and communal affinities.
“The consequence of these is an increase in the number of youths in urban centres, exposed to streets sub-cultures of marginality found in drugs, loose morality, violence, profanity and disrespect for social institutions. These youths provide a ready standing army for ethnic chauvinism and religious bigotry. The attraction of the youth to violence as exemplified in ethnic militias, cultism, banditry, hired assassins and armed body guards anchored by the PDP, can be attributed to the violent style of governance that is the hallmark of the present government. Youths are now being used as armed vanguards
of PDP purposely to forth-coming elections by hook or crook means.
“In October last year, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a report on how the falling oil prices would affect members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), many of which need oil prices to average way above the current Brent crude oil price of $90 a barrel to balance their books. Using data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Arab Petroleum Investments Corp and Deutsche Bank, the WSJ wrote that the “struggling OPEC members are
suffering partly for failing to diversify their economies when oil prices were high”, as well as not investing “enough in their oil industries to sustain them through leaner times.”
In the estimated projections of how much a barrel of oil would have to sell for before the budget of each OPEC country would balance, the APC candidate noted that only six (Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Angola) would fare well with the price below
$100.
According to him, ‘’It would take a price of $119 per barrel for Nigeria’s budget to balance. A month later, data from the same IMF and Deutsche Bank quoted by the BBC had pushed the price per barrel that Nigeria would require for a balanced budget to $123! Today, it must be hovering above $130 per abarrel at a time the commodity is actually selling for less than half of that price. What that suggests is that our economy is in dire straits’’.
Adeniyi, who is the son of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, counselled the minister to return to School of Political History and learn, without prejudice, the indelible roles Tinubu played and is still playing towards a just and egalitarian nation, as well as emancipation of the
Yoruba.
