PDP has no agenda for development —Aregbesola

Against the backdrop of this Saturday’s governorship polls in Osun, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, at the weekend, took on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), contending that “it is an established fact that the party has no plan at all for the development and progress of the state, except to return the state to the stone age.” Apparently reacting to last Saturday’s grand finale of the PDP’s campaign, where President Goodluck Jonathan presented a symbolic flag to Senator Iyiola Omisore, who is the standard-bearer of the major opposition party, the governor contended that “all the PDP bigwigs, including President Jonathan and Vice President Namadi Sambo, could not tell the people in one statement what their party had in stock and what they intended to do differently.” In a statement signed by Director, Bureau of Communications and Strategy, Mr Semiu Okanlawon, the governor, who is also the standard-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), affirmed that “what the PDP did with its so-called mega rally was to, at best, just register its presence in the state, having discovered that their candidate has no chance in the electoral contest of August 9. “Campaign is basically and primarily meant to intimate the electorate with a political party’s manifesto and what the party intends to do diffrently by seeking to take power. What we saw of the PDP mega rally yesterday (Saturday) was an open demonstration of emptiness, indeed a very empty gathering meant to insult the sensibilities of the people of Osun,” Aregbesola added. But, the PDP, in a release signed by Mr Diran Odeyemi, who is the director of media and strategy to Omisore, said “Aregbesola is already under the illusion of somebody suffering from pre and post-electoral disaster.” “If he is knowledgable enough, by now, he should have digested the content of the eight-point rescue agenda of his successor, Senator Iyiola Omisore, for Osun State and own up for the misrule, irresponsible governance, inhuman treatment, penury and controversial policy on merger of schools, which almost stoked religious war in the state,” he remarked.