2015: We are tired of your empty promises…Bamidele says Nigerians ready to vote out rudderless and directionless leadership.
OPEYEMI BAMIDELE
The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele, has urged politicians to desist from blood-letting as the country approaches the 2015 general elections.
In a statement issued in Ado Ekiti yesterday, Bamidele noted that political offices are meant to render selfless service to the people, saying it would fly in the face of democratic tenets for politicians to start killing people to win elections.
The statement, signed by his Media Aide, Ahmed Salami, urged politicians to comport themselves in most civilised ways, to prevent the country from being plunged into unnecessary bedlam because of elections, he described as a civil matter.
Bamidele, who exhumed confidence that the country’s problems , particularly the socio-economic crises confronting the Nigerian citizens are not beyond redemption, urged the populace to be hopeful and offer prayers for Nigeria to return to the path of sanity and respect.
The Federal parliamentarian appealed to the electorate to vote wisely in the next month general elections, describing this as the only panacea against bad governance and entrenchment of rudderless government in the polity.
Bamidele opined that Nigerians will start enjoying from their enormous wealth that had long eluded them, if they muster the courage to resist money politics and vote according to the dictate of their conscience in the forthcoming elections.
“2015 elections offer yet another opportunity for Nigerians to redirect the nation to the path of honour, respect and sanity that had long eluded us. We cannot afford to remain in perpetual sufferings when a few cabals are living in immense opulence, having gained access to our commonwealth and arrogated it to themselves and made many Nigerians to live in abject poverty, unemployment and starvation in the midst of surplus.
“I hold the belief that Nigeria is not jinxed. We are not a cursed nation and we have to prove this by taking our destiny in our own hands. How best to do this is by voting out rudderless and directionless leaderships, who have nothing to offer Nigerians than unrealisable promises.
“Electoral events of the recent past had an insight that Nigerians votes can now count. We have to maximise this opportunity in these elections not only for us to earn international respect , but to prove a point that the time for change is now and we have to do everything to effect this unavoidable action”, he added.
Source: THISDAYLIVE
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