Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, on Tuesday stated that Nigerians would be shocked if he revealed the mind-boggling corruption taking place under the current leadership in the country.
Tambuwal, who stated this at the formal flag-off of the presidential campaign of the APC in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, lamented that Nigeria does not deserve the leadership it has at this time.
He said it was one of the reasons he dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last October for the APC.
Mr. Tambuwal, who is the governorship candidate of the APC in Sokoto State in the February 28 election, said the mindboggling information on the rot in the country was obtained by the House during its oversight functions.
“I am impressed by what I am seeing here today. This is a clear testimony that Rivers and indeed the good people of Nigeria will come out en masse and overwhelmingly vote the candidates of the APC”, he said.
“When I defected to the APC, many people were surprised that how can I leave a ruling party to an opposition party?
“On the privileged position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives that I presided over for three and half years, we oversaw the current government and what we saw and what we are still seeing is mind-boggling and from the information available to us, we don’t deserve the current type of leadership that we have at the centre and Nigeria deserves better leadership as is by the grace of God and will be exemplified by General Muhammadu Buhari. His records speak for him”.
The Speaker said the country would develop faster with the opposition APC than with the ruling PDP, noting that the Goodluck Jonathan-led administration was not serious about governance.
Among those that attended the hugely successfully inauguration of the presidential campaign of the APC, which held at the Adokiye Amasiemaka Stadium, are the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun; vice presidential candidate of APC, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), Governors Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Babatunde Fashola (Lagos) and Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun); Senator Chris Ngige, APC governorship candidates in Rivers and Kaduna States, Dakuku Peterside and Nasir El-Rufai respectively; former PDP national chairman, Chief Audu Ogbe; former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva; Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa and Tony Momoh.