By Abdullahi M. Gulloma
Abuja
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state said yesterday that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former President Goodluck Jonathan have destroyed and liquidated Nigeria.
Speaking to State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, Oshiomhole said from 2010 to 2015, Nigeria was ruled by a “President who was always blabbing and was not sure of what the issues were.”
He said: “The PDP destroyed the country. I mean from the lips of American officials; senior officials of the State Department said one minister under PDP cornered as much as $6 billion.
“PDP is a party that presided over the liquidation of our nation, destroyed all our institutions, converted the Armed Forces commanders to use them as if they were political thugs, converted NTA to a party megaphone, destroyed the SSS, went after opposition as if we were rabbits to be pursued into our holes, compromised even student unions and destroyed everything that you can think of an elevated religion to a state affair.
“Under the party, Israel became a place you visit every week; they placed pastors against mallams, placed North against South, East against West just to retain power; elevated Obas and Obis with dollars.
“You guys (journalists) were reporting dollars that were changing hands when NNPC was spending much more money than is available to the Federation Account. We are a very patient people. If we were not a patient people, anybody wearing the tag of PDP ought to feel very unsafe because you are all victims – all of us here.”
Oshiomhole also told journalists that he had decided not to bother about anything the PDP says about the present administration because he did not expect the party to be praise-singing a government that is doing better than what it did while in government.
The governor said it was not in the character of armed robbers to clap when security agencies are doing their job, adding, “If PDP does not condemn what the present government is doing in the area of corruption, then it is no longer PDP.”