The senator representing Osun-East senatorial district, Babajide Omoworare, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan will not win the coming presidential election despite allegedly bribing influential Nigerians to support his re-election.

Omoworare said this at a press conference organized by the Osun State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Osogbo on Monday.

The senator said that the election was postponed to enable Jonathan buy time but he stated that Nigerians had made up their minds to vote out Jonathan because of ineptitude and corruption.

According to the senator, Nigerians are fed up of Jonathan’s administration which he said entrenched corruption and allowed Boko Haram to kill thousands of Nigerians before taking any step to stop them.

He said, “President Jonathan travelled to meet with the Soun of Ogbomoso whose son is contesting on the platform of our party.   He wasted money there. He also went to Oyo to meet with the Alaafin whose son is also contesting. He goes about wasting the nation’s resources.

“The money he should use to construct roads and to provide other amenities – he is wasting the money. He cannot win even if he empties the treasury. He cannot win in the South-West. I am sure that the majority of Yoruba people will not vote for him.”

The senator said that the presidential candidate of his party, the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari ( retd.), proved that he was a man of integrity when he ruled the nation even as a soldier.

While urging Nigerians irrespective of religious and ethnic background to support Buhari to win the poll, he said that Nigeria would not be able to cope with another four years of PDP rule.

Omoworare lauded the renewed military onslaught against Boko Haram insurgents, saying Nigerian soldiers were gallant and should be given kudos for pounding Boko Haram.

He, however, said that the success against the insurgents should be probed because of the claim in some quarters that the Federal Government secured the services of mercenaries from South Africa and Russia in the ongoing war.

Source: PUNCH