The Southwest Peoples Assembly (SWPA) has said that moarchs in the region can not gurantee the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan at the polls.
The group said: “President Goodluck Jonathan is not sincere with the people of South-west since he assumed office about six years.” It pointed out that the Yoruba people had been schemed from strategic positions or appointments under his leadership.
Its Mr. Lai Omotola, said in a statement that the South-west “has the most sophisticated voters that cannot be bought with petro-dollars or influenced by traditional rulers.
He added: “In South-west, petrodollars will not impact much, but pedigree will be key on the basis of who have stood by the Yoruba agenda, who can be trusted, who can put Yoruba on the right pedestrian. Integrity has electoral weight in Yoruba land.”
Omotola said that the purported inroad by the president into the South-west and the apparent shifting of all campaign machinery into the zone to win votes “is nothing, but an exercise in futility.”
He said: If the president is sincere with the Yoruba people, then what happened in other key appointments like Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), Debt Management Office (DMO), Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) among others.”
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