I’ll free Nigeria from insecurity –

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has
said his administration will do everything to free
Nigeria from the cycle of corruption, unemployment
and insecurity.
Buhari said this on Wednesday during the presidential
campaign of the APC held at the Osogbo City Stadium.
The rally which was billed to hold around 10a.m. did
not start until around 5:45p.m. when Buhari led other
chieftains of the party to the stadium.
Surprisingly, the crowd refused to leave the venue
despite the long hours of delay.
Buhari said, "Nigeria is under the shackles of
corruption, unemployment and insecurity. We are
determined to break the vicious cycle."
The former military Head of State said that his
administration would use agriculture and mining to
address the problem of unemployment and thereby
reduce crime.
The presidential candidate of the leading opposition
party thanked the people of the state for their dodged
support for the APC, saying they showed loyalty to the
party with their support for Governor Rauf Aregbesola
during the August 9 governorship election in which
Aregbesola defeated his major challenger in the
election, Senator Iyiola Omisore, by a landslide.
The National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-
Oyegun, associated the Peoples Democratic Party with
bad governance, insecurity and corruption.
He described Buhari as a man of courage and integrity
who could see where others could not.
He urged the people of Osun State and entire
Nigerians, irrespective of religion and ethnic leanings,
to reject the PDP at the February election.
Aregbesola used the rally to react to the claim by Vice-
President Namadi Sambo that the Federal
Government did not owe Osun State any allocation.
The governor, who described the claim as false,
described the PDP as a party of "thieves."
He said it was unfortunate that the vice-president and
other leaders of the PDP could make spurious claim
about such an important issue because they were
seeking votes.
Aregbesola said, "They came here yesterday and said
that they are paying allocation regularly. They are
thieves! Let me tell you, we collected November
allocation on December 21. We have not received
December allocation now.
"We will expose them because they are evil. We didn't
want to talk before because we are all in government
but we will speak out now."
He said that Osun State people would continue to
support the APC because the party was far better than
the PDP which he said had foisted bad governance on
the nation.