‘PDP national leaders messed up party

Ondo State deputy governor, Alhaji Ali Olanusi

Ondo State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ali Olanusi, has blamed the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party for his defection to the All Progressives Congress.

Olanusi declared his defection to the APC on Thursday, citing marginalisation and unfairness on the part of the PDP.

He told reporters in his polling unit at Supare, in the Akoko South West of Ondo State, that the party was “messed up” by its leaders at all levels.

According to him, he had to leave the party for good in the interest of his people.

He said, “The PDP has been messed up by the National Working Committee and the party executive. This made it difficult for me to remain there.”

On the elections, he said he hoped that INEC would do a good job, even though it was too early to judge the situation then

Jonathan hoodwinked by people around him —Braithwaite

Dr. Tunji Braithwaite

Human rights lawyer, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, in this interview with LEKE BAIYEWU, speaks on the 2014 confab report and the 2015 general elections

The 2015 general elections have begun; do you think Nigeria was prepared for the exercise?

What should have happened before the elections, which would have saved this country from an imminent political crisis, is the constitutional amendment and restructuring of Nigeria. That is the only thing that will avert crisis in this country. I don’t see how we can avert a serious political deadlock; I do not see how we can avert it at this stage.

What could have been done within the short period between the 2014 National Conference and these elections?

What could have averted political crises in this country would have been the implementation of the outcome of the confab. But for some reasons, President Goodluck Jonathan allowed himself to be hoodwinked out of such an historical step, which would have saved this country. Everything depends on the constitution and the system that a country is operating. The 1999 Constitution has never been a constitution suitable for the Nigerian situation. We have described that document as prescription for chaos. That document has now thrown this country into political precipice. It was a constitution suitable for other countries, especially theUnited States. We agreed to use the 1999 Constitution to kick-start the return to democracy. After that, we would produce a constitution that is suitable and acceptable to all the peoples in Nigeria. That was never done.

For instance, each state governor has become an emperor and that is why we find – from 1999 – governors that will determine his successor in office. They will nominate their chiefs of staff, relatives and relations to cover their corrupt tracks. We have 37 emperors in Nigeria, apart from the President. The constitution purports to be a federal constitution, in practice it is not. We don’t have fiscal federalism.

The constitution, again, puts a cap or ceiling on the potential possibilities of the people of this country, particularly the younger generation. The constitution promotes wide-scale corruption. That is why we can see governors becoming billionaires. They steal the states dry. They do what they like because they are clothed with immunity. We could not have allowed these people from grass to riches.

More important, the current constitution does not make for development of the vibrant sector of the population – the younger generation. There is too much power concentrated at the centre and the mutatis mutandis in the states. It is a horrible constitution.

Who have hoodwinked Jonathan from implementing the confab report?

He was hookwinked by his people in Abuja; his political associates. There are certain people in Abuja who will prefer the status quo. They benefit from this lopsided constitution. If you look at the emoluments that the legislators carry home, they are disproportionate. They don’t deserve such. Despite the lip service to patriotism or sense of responsibility, they don’t care about what happens to this country as long as it benefits them. Such people would oppose anything that will remove all this largesse. This is why it is unfortunate that Jonathan had a very unique opportunity to restructure Nigeria in a way that will set Nigeria on a path of rapid development and social emancipation of the people.

They claim that we are the biggest economy (in Africa) but what is the benefit of that? What is the meaning of being the biggest economy, yet in smaller economies they have regular electricity supply, potable water, better roads and they live relatively more peacefully than Nigerians? What is the value of all these paper promotions? The bottom line of all these is a missed opportunity. Just before our independence in 1960 when we were students abroad, we were all very excited about the independence. Nigeria was at par with countries like India and the Asian Tigers but we made a mess of it.

With the non-implementation of the confab report up till now, would you agree that the exercise was a jamboree?

Certainly not! The confab was never a jamboree. The confab did its work but it is not for the members to force its implementation. Everything was transparent; the proceedings were covered and followed. That was the best constitutional conference that ever held in this country; it was even better than the pre-independence conferences. The delegates sat down to analyse the difficulties, taking into account local prevailing cultures and tried to restructure the country on equitable basis. How can you describe such as a jamboree?

This is why it will go down in history. Jonathan must take the credit for convoking that confab but that was as far as it went. Unfortunately, the man allowed himself by members of his party to put such a wonderful, historical document aside for partisan politics. I hope he does not regret it.

If you think Jonathan is not disposed to implementing the report and APC cannot bring the changes the report could have brought, what would have been the options available to the electorate?

The people of any country know their rights; they always have options. They know they can take their destinies into their hands; they know they can force whoever is in government to do their bidding. I can only hope that with global modernisation, the people of this country will do that. If the elections failed to usher in orderly transition, I can only hope that the people of this country will take their destiny into their hands and force the change that is necessary. I have been saying this for years.

And you still don’t see the APC offering an alternative?

The APC is in no condition to offer an alternative to the Peoples Democratic Party. Unfortunately, the record of the PDP for the past 16 years is poor. Corruption has gone through the roof. And who are the members of the APC? Are they not substantially the defectors from the PDP? You will find out that those who are not defectors and those who are clamouring for APC are doing so not for what APC can do but they are doing so as a protest. They are rooting for APC as a form of protest against the unproductive, corrupt leadership of the PDP. When you say some people are founding fathers, like Olusegun Obasanjo — who from the point of view of many people have a bad record — and a man like that can come out to denigrate his party, what does that say? It tells you that the umbrella has become rags and tatters. That is not to say that the APC is the alternative. We shall see.

But is Obasanjo’s exit from the PDP a plus or minus for the party?

It is certainly not a plus for the party, in the estimation of right-thinking people. It is an embarrassment to the party because he claimed to be one of their founding fathers. It means that their centre could not hold. If he was expelled, that would have been a different matter. Not only did he exit the party, he came out with terrible things against the leader of the party. That is dreadful.

Who will lead Nigerians in a revolution where the so-called social crusaders and activists are perceived to have been corrupted by the political class?

There are stronger silent forces genuinely committed to a revolution in this country. The ones that you see are committed, in one way or the other, to the corrupt government; they cannot move the masses to action. We know those who can move the masses to action in this country when the time comes. And I believe the time is very imminent. If you keep in mind that there is a divine dimension in all of these as well, that there is a time for everything, Nigeria has reached its time for a revolution.

President Jonathan had said calling for Interim National Government was treasonable.

It is not treasonable to say that there is likely to be an interim administration — an interim administration in the sense that there can be no vacuum in government. When the chaos comes, there has to be a government in place.

Do you see the National Assembly stepping in like in the case of ex-President Umaru Yar’Adua’s death?

Certainly not this National Assembly. They are part of the reasons why there has to be an interim government.

So, who will spearhead the process?

It is a normal, natural process in the ensuing chaos to hold the country together. It is a normal, natural course of development in the ensuing chaos. The only way to avert that is to make sure that there is an orderly transition of government.

Buhari beats Jonathan inside Aso Villa

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan casts his vote in Otuoke, Bayelsa State on... Saturday

There are two polling units-Unit 021 and 022-located side-by-side within the premises of the seat of power.The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) defeated President Goodluck Jonathan in the elections conducted inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Buhari polled a total of 613 votes in the two polling units while Jonathan scored a total of 595 votes.

At Unit 021, Jonathan beat Buhari to second position with 293 votes while the APC candidate scored 265 votes.

At the second polling booth, Unit 022, Buhari emerged winner with 348 votes while Jonathan polled 302.

For the Senatorial election in Unit 021, PDP polled 286 votes to beat APC with 260.

In Unit 022, APC polled 337 votes while PDP scored 281 votes.

For the House of Representatives election in Unit 022, APC polled 334 to beat PDP to distant second with 241 votes.

For Unit 021 however, it was a close contest between APC that won with 255 votes and PDP that polled 254.

A total of 575 voters were accredited out of the 2,181 registered voters for Unit 021 while 770 voters were accredited out of the 2,278 voters registered for Unit 022.

The sorting and counting of the votes ran ended at 11.30pm, necessitating some voters to illuminate the venue with the headlamps of their cars.

Meanwhile, Jonathan has returned to the Presidential Villa after casting his vote in his hometown, Otuoke, Bayelsa State.

He was inside his official residence while the votes cast in the two units were being counted.

He was said to have returned at about 8.30pm

APC wins Obasanjo’s ward

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo at Ward 11, Unit 22, Totoro/Sokori, in Abeokuta, Ogun State… on Saturday

At the polling unit, Ward 11, Unit 2, Shokori, Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State, the APC polled 100 in presidential votes, while the PDP got 16.The All Progressives Congress won the polling unit of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Saturday’s presidential election, beating the Peoples Democratic Party to a second place.

In the votes for Senate, the APC got 93, while the PDP got eight. The Social Democratic Party got 15, while the Peoples Party of Nigeria got two.

The majority votes for the House of Representatives also went to the APC, which polled 98, while the PDP got eight. The SDP got 12.

Obasanjo had earlier in the day told journalists at the polling unit that he was satisfied with the conduct of the elections, hoping that other parts of the country would be as peaceful as his ward.

“What I have seen at my polling station is satisfactory. I have talked to a few people here in Abeokuta and they have also reported satisfactory report. I will appeal to all Nigerians to maintain this type of satisfactory report.

Suspected PDP thugs snatch ballot boxes

Hoodlums believed to be agents of the Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday snatched ballot boxes at Nungudoe Itak, Ikono, in the Ikono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.

The hoodlums, our correspondents learnt, had pretended to be engaged in a fight only to swoop on the electoral officers and snatched the ballot boxes. Some of them were also seen thumb-printing the ballot papers, allegedly in favour of the PDP candidates in the area.

According to a voter, who asked not to be named, the entire area is dominated by the All Progressives Congress. The female voter noted that accreditation of voters went on smoothly, but when the time for voting began, a certain man from the area came with the thugs and upturned the pattern the actual voting would have taken.

Meanwhile, the APC senatorial candidate for Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District, Mr. Inibehe Okori, said the party’s agent in Ward 6 in the Etim Ekpo Local Government Area of the state, Mr. Charles Udoetuk, had been arrested by the police.

“The police seized Charles Udoetuk for asking questions about the election materials,” Okori said.

When contacted, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Gabriel Achong, said he was not aware of the arrest.

“I am not aware. I am in Uyo,” the CP said.

Our correspondents also learnt from the Oro axis that violence broke out in the early hours of Saturday following the non-availability of electoral materials in the areas.

It was learnt that some youth corps members who served as ad hoc staff for the commission were detained by some groups said to be unhappy about the non-availability of the electoral materials in the area.

Our correspondents also learnt that a member of the Labour Party, who was trying to run away with a stolen ballot box, was axed to death.

Achong said he was not also aware of the incident.

The Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr. Godswill Akpabio, had told journalists after voting in his Ward 2, Unit 009, Ukana, in the Essien Udim Local Government Area, that the use of the card readers for the elections was unnecessary.

He said that as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Governorship Forum, he had advised against the use of the card readers but that people did not see reason with him to discontinue the process.

“My card reader did not have any issue but that of my wife did. Voter registers have all necessary information like the pictures of the voters and their names. The card reader is a duplication of the manual process,” he said.

DPO accused of snatching ballot boxes in Niger

A Divisional Police Officer attached to Magama Local Government area of Niger State (names withheld) was on Saturday accused of snatching four ballot boxes and papers at the Mungoro central polling unit of the Majin ward.

He was also alleged to have tear-gassed officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission and electorate who were on a queue to cast their votes.

An eyewitness, Mr. Ibrahim Rege, said the accreditation of voters was peacefully conducted and that voting was in progress when the DPO invaded the polling unit, fired tear gas canisters at the crowd and allegedly took the ballot boxes and papers away.

Rege said, “The entire voting process was on course peacefully. Accreditation was peacefully carried out and voters were orderly on the queue to cast their vote when the DPO stormed the polling unit, tear-gassed both INEC officials and the people before carting away the ballot boxes together with the thumb-printed and virgin ballot papers”.

He complained that people in the area had cause to report the DPO to the Area Commander recently, accusing him of personally destroying posters and bill boards of APC candidates.

The Deputy Governor of the state, Mr. Ahmed Ibeto, who hails from the area, said he was informed of the incident and expressed concern at the unprofessional behaviour of the police officer.

Ibeto corroborated the allegation of bias levied against the DPO.

But when contacted on telephone, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Emmanuel Amore, denied the allegation and explained that the DPO only helped to rescue the INEC officials and materials from hoodlums.

Amore said, “It is not true; my DPO only protected the INEC officials and their materials from some hoodlums. They are only making allegations because they were not allowed to carry out their nefarious activity.

“Go and ask INEC if any of their material is missing. My DPO only helped to protect the INEC officials and materials”.

Remi Tinubu, Obanikoro win polling units

The lawmaker representing Lagos Central Senatorial District, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, won her Polling Unit 34, Ward 9, |Ikoyi. She scored 105 while her Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenger polled 21 votes.

At the same unit, the APC won the House of Representatives with 103 votes to PDP’s 16. APC also had 106 votes in the presidential to PDP’s 25.
Minister of State Foreign Affairs, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, also delivered Ward 8, Polling Unit 012, Eti-Osa Local Government to the PDP.
In the presidential election, the PDP had 151 votes to APC’s 86. In the senatorial election, it was 147:83 in favour of of PDP and 147:78 for the House of Representatives.

Oluremi Tinubu

Tinubu, Fashola deliver
Also Senator Bola Tinubu delivered his unit 047, Sunday Adigun Street, Ward C, Alausa, Ikeja as APC  candidates defeated their opponents at the polls.

The counting at the ward started around 5 pm by the National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, INEC staff. Total number of people accredited was 891 and total number of voters was 723 while the total number of voided votes was 15.
Presidential results were as follows: APC, 180; PDP 55; APA 1, and KOWA 2.

Senatorial: KOWA 2; PDP 53; APC 181; and House of Reps: KOWA 1; AD 1; PDP 53 and APC 178.

At Ward G-3, State Senior Secondary School, Itolo, Surulere, where Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State voted, the results were: Presidential (APC 317, PDP 135); Senate (APC 318 , PDP 129) and House of Reps (APC326 and PDP 114).

The result in Unit 005, Nobest, Council area, Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Alimosho for Presidential. APC 220 and PDP 137, House of Reps, PDP scored 140, and APC 209, while the Senate recorded APC 213, PDP 139.
At Unit 039, Ifako, APC with 100 votes won the presidential poll while the PDP polled 50.

Bode George loses polling unit to APC
Former Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Chief Olabode George, lost his 001 Evans Street, Lagos Island, polling unit  to the APC by one vote.

For the presidential poll, the PDP scored 108 votes to APC’s 109.

Sokoto State APC Chieftains Arrested

With just hours to the 2015 presidential elections, Sahara Reporters has been informed of the detention of some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by the Sokoto State command of the Department of State Security (DSS).

Alhaji Ummarun KwaboThose under arrest include Alhaji Mu’azu Zabira, the chairman of APC’s Security Committee.  The home of another APC chieftain, Alhaji Ummarun Kwabo was raided, during which Alhaji Abubakar Kani was arrested.  Up to the time of this report, no information was available with regard to where they are, or the offences for which they are being held.

Confirming the situation to SaharaReporters, the APC acting Chairman in the state, Alhaji Usman Suleiman Danmadamin Isah, said arrests are one of the strategies of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to use force to seize power in the state. Alhaji Isah said efforts were being made to secure the release of the men before the election.

Responding to telephone inquiries, the DSS Director, Abubakar Bubuche, denied knowledge of the arrests.  The Sokoto State Police Command Public Relations Officer (PPRO), El-Mustapha Sani, also denied that the Police have a hand in the arrests.

The state PDP, in conjunction with the Federal Government, is alleged to have listed about nine APC chieftains in the state as well as some state government officials to be detained until the result of the elections is announced.

Meanwhile, Justice Rilwanu Aikawa of the Sokoto Federal High Court has restrained the EFCC, ICPC, the Police and the NIA from arresting state government officials in relation to investigations in alleged cases of appropriation, disbursement and administration of monies appropriated between 2008 and 2014.

Also on Friday in Kaduna, Kaduna State, the police was reported to have attempted to detain several APC chieftains, including the governorship candidate, Nasir El-Rufai, the APC Senatorial Candidate for Kaduna North, Suleiman Hunkuyi; and a top campaign council official, Lawal Yakawada.

Premium Times said the APC officials had declined to honour the invitation, but that their lawyer wrote to the police to say the matter over which they were invited was already in court.

Two issues anyone can accuse me of – Buhari

PRESIDENTIAL Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Lagos affirmed that his administration will have zero tolerance for violence against women just as he formally took responsibility for actions taken under his stewardship as head of state.

Buhari spoke at two separate interactive sessions with the women in Lagos yesterday. He spoke as Governor Rotimi Amaechi commended Buhari’s wife as a true epitome of womanhood saying she has been well groomed as a lady preparatory to stepping in as First Lady. Governor Amaechi at the ceremony debunked attacks on him by First Lady Patience Jonathan saying that the same woman attacking him as a son cannot do so.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State also at the sessions also flayed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP led Federal Government for failing to bring back the abducted Chibok girls.

Giving his tone on gender issues, Buhari said: “Our administration will ensure promotion of anti-discrimination legislations and policies to afford women equality and equity, especially in the areas of employment, education, housing and entrepreneurship. We shall commit ourselves to merit based Affirmative Actions to level the playing field for women and provide them with opportunities to be part of decision-making and governance at all levels while we will include gender as a component of the federal character.

Buhari

“There will be strong political will to promote Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality through dedicating the required financial, human and technical resources toward this goal and we will make a concerted effort to empower women in rural areas who constitute majority of the Nigerian women. We will enforce legal protection for the rights of the girl-child in all areas of religious, social and economic life, protecting her right to dignity, shelter and choice.”

He went further, “Nigerian women have always played a visible and competent role in nation building. In addition to their various activities which sustained communities in pre-colonial times, they also played key roles in the struggles for independence and the political processes that followed.”

Flaying the country’s high rate of maternal and child mortality which he said is among the highest in the world, he said he was determined to rescue Nigeria’s fading glory. “I am on a mission to restore Nigeria’s fading glory and reposition our great nation on the path to greatness. I am however aware that this will not be possible without addressing the needs and concerns of those who constitute half of the population of this country which are women. As the father of a number of promising young women, I should know what it means to want the very best for my own daughters.”

Taking responsibility for actions done in his name as military head of state, particularly the execution of drug peddlers and the promulgation of Decree Number 4 limiting press freedom, he said: “As military head of state, there are two things I did and I have since accepted them as a leader. It is true that the bulk of everything lands on the table of Mr President, so the things that happened, I accept my responsibility but I cannot undo the past but as a President of the future, I have taken note.

“The two issues anyone can accuse me of is the shooting of drug pushers and decree number four which affects the Journalists. If you do your research well, you will realize the reason why the Supreme Military Council of that time took those decisions”.

Buhari also drew questions from a cross section of the audience including leading stars of Nollywood, artisans and women from different professions.

Speaking at the event, Rivers State Governor and Director General of the APC Campaign, Governor Rotimi Amaechi described insinuations about Buhari as being a religious bigot as unfounded.

He said, “We have brought him here so that you ask him questions as you want, so that you can see that the other party has been feeding the country with lies. We have brought him here so that you can see that this man that is being demonised is after-all a human being and is not what they say he is and he is a man of his words.

“He is not a Christian but a Muslim, but Christians work with him. He told me two things when we started this campaign, he said to me I will give you 16 hours of my time but allow me my own 6 hours.

He also told me that throughout his life, he allows Sundays for Christian who works with him, so he asked me to remove Sundays from our programmes so that his workers that are Christians can attend their churches.

“If you are conversant with our campaigns, you will realize we don’t do campaigns on Sunday. And what I find difficult was that during the Christmas season, we should have started our campaigns, he said no, this is the season the Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, we will not campaign until after that time. Can this man be a religious bigot? Who is lying”? He queried.

He further said, “ They claimed General Buhari said that women should be in the kitchen but I can say with all sense of seriousness that have never seen his wife spend the whole day in the kitchen, I have also seen Hajia Buhari campaign, she is an epitome of a true woman, very gentle. You heard Professor Wole Soyinka saying you need to become a lady before assuming the position of a First lady. She has never abused the President and she has never talked against any man who has even abused her husband but our other woman says am her son and she has been abusing me. So if that my mother is a lady, she should please behave like a lady”.

This election is about Nigeria’s future — Gov Fashola

In his remarks, Governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Raji Fashola urged Lagosians to vote out the PDP because Mr President has not fulfilled any of the promises he made to them in 2011.

He flayed the government for turning its back on the Chibok girls.

Personalities present at the event included; National leader of the party, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Lagos, Mr Akin Ambode, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, deputy governor of Osun state, Mrs Laoye Tomori, deputy governor of Lagos state, Orelope Adefulire, former governor of Ekiti state, Mr Segun Oni, wife of former governor of Ekiti state, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, Lagos state first lady, Mrs Dame Fashola, former Minister of state for defence, Mr Demola Seriki, Mr Patrick Obahiagbon, Hon. Abike Dabiri among many others.

PDP using religion to loot Nigeria, says Buhari’s wife

WIFE of former Head of State and Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Hajia Aishat Buhari, yesterday in Benin City, Edo State, accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of using religious politics as a decoy to loot the nation’s treasury, adding that Nigerians must vote the party out before it grounds the country completely.

She also lampooned the PDP for the alleged campaign of calumny launched against her husband such as telling Nigerians that the intention of her husband, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, would be to jail Nigerians if voted into power, saying that only those who have “something to hide” should be scared and not innocent Nigerians who deserve power, good education and other basic amenities of life.

Apc Women rally: From left: Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and wife of APC presidential candidate, Hajia Aisha Buhari, during Apc Women rally, at Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City, Edo State. Photo: Barnabas Uzosike.

This came as Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State insisted that Nigerians will continue to witness power outage unless the PDP was voted out of power, adding that after 16 years in office, rather than revive and build more refineries which, according to him, will create jobs, the PDP allegedly destroyed the refineries so as to continue to import fuel and kerosene to the detriment of Nigerians.

Hajia Buhari, who addressed Edo State women at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, said: “They have been painting Buhari black using religion, but I am happy today that Nigerians have discovered that PDP is using religion as a cover to loot Nigeria. They have grounded the country. Whoever talks to you about religion in this country is a liar, he wants to loot. He wants to loot the little resources Nigerians will enjoy. Say no to religious politics, they are using it to deceive the people.

“When my husband is elected, insecurity, girl child trafficking, suffering of widows in the South-East will come to an end. There must be a cultural design that will accommodate widows in the South-East and a policy that will make a girl child comfortable in this country. Our girls do not need to leave Nigeria to prostitute abroad, it is not our portion. Our portion is to train our children to be future leaders.

“Girl child trafficking can be considered as one of our problems in the South-South zone. I know there is unemployment here too. Unemployment is the major cause of brain drain and girl child trafficking. Gen. Buhari is a leader, he led Nigeria years ago and he is coming back now to sanitise the system. For those who are saying that he is coming to jail Nigerians, I don’t know what their fear is.

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“They should not be afraid because we are all yearning for change. There is insecurity in the country, bad healthcare system, decay in the educational sector and there are other basic necessities that our people are lacking. I think Nigeria needs Buhari now.”

In her welcome address, wife of the deputy Governor of Edo State, Mrs Endurance Odubu, who commended Governor Oshiomhole for the opportunities given to women in the state to excel, described Gen. Buhari as the leader Nigerians deserve at this point in time “to revive our economy and end this prevailing suffering in Nigeria today.”