The Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has promised Nigerians of a better life when the party is voted into power in the February general elections.
He said this today in Osogbo during a sensitisation event tagged “Walk-for-change” where a mammoth crowd of Osun people joined the APC vice presidential candidate in a long walk covering about 7 kilometer.
The walk which flagged off at the government house, Osogbo covered Okefia-Olaiya axis, then through Jaleyemi/Isale-aro; up on to Gbeemu junction. The walk further moved on through Oluode market where professor Osinbajo and Governor Aregbesola as well as other party leaders were held up by market women and other citizens who were in the market for various transaction. The jubilant market crowd struggled over each other to catch glympse of the the APC vice presidential candidate.
Professor Osinbajo occassionally stopped to speak to them along the route of the walk; explaining why change must be effected in Nigerian government. “Our government will provide better platform for governments in all States so that your commerce would thrive better and we will ensure that all your children in every state have afternoon food from primary 1-6.
“Never again shall your children pass out of universities without having jobs. This coming elections are your elections and you must vote wisely. Let us chase out this people who have made live miserable for Nigerians. We can do it”, the Professor told the market women.
The crowd moved further through Ayetoro to the Osogbo stadium where another mammoth crowd was waiting.
At stadium, he promised that the party will create “massive jobs for the youths of the country”, while also stressing that the APC government will be a government that will consider the poor masses in its various programmes.
He said the party will work towards fixing the health sector so that Nigerians can have access to good medical facilities at an affordable cost.
Also speaking, Osun governor, Rauf Aregbesola while charging the people to ensure that they collect their voter cards urged them to pray for a peaceful conduct of the elections.
He enjoined Nigerians to vote for the candidates of the APC so that the country will be rescued from the shackles of poverty and hardship which the citizens are currently facing under Jonathan administration.
Earlier in a welcome address, the state chairman of APC, Prince Gboyega Famoodun stated that the party in Osun is ready to work for the success of the Buhari/Osinbajo tockets; as eell as other ones in the forthcoming elections.
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