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The presidential
flagbearer of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Nuhu Ribadu, has
said that a positive change has come to the nation and the era of
corruption in high places, non-accountability of public funds, abuse of
power and reckless spending of tax payers money and oil revenues will
soon become a thing of the past.

The former
anti-graft czar said this at the flag-off campaign of Ovie Omo-Agege,
the party’s governorship candidate in in Delta State, on Wednesday in
Effurun. Mr Ribadu noted that there are testimonies to show that the
ACN has credibility in the country today, using the party’s
achievements in states like Lagos and Edo, as examples. “Vote for your
son, Ovie Omo Agege, so that Delta can start working and send me to
Abuja for effective, transparent and good governance,” he said. “What
is happening in Edo State today, we want to see it happen in Abuja and
other states where ACN is not ruling. Wherever you see ACN, you see
performance, you see competence.”

‘Nigeria is sick’

While speaking at
the event in Delta State, former governor of Lagos State and a leader
of the party, Bola Tinubu, described Nigeria as a sick nation that
requires urgent attention. “We all know that Nigeria is sick and if we
all agree that Nigeria is sick, what we need at this point is a doctor
or a surgeon that cure the nation of its many sickness,” he said. “And
it does not matter where the physician that will cure this sickness
comes from in any part of the country, what matter most is the ability
to do a good job by curing this sickness.”

He urged Nigerians
to play down ethnic sentiments, especially those that border on
regional interest, but look critically at the credibility and pedigree
of all the candidates in order to choose who will deliver. “As an
individual, if you fall sick today, you consult a doctor and when you
get to the hospital, you do not ask which ethnic group did the doctor
come from beause all you wanted was to get the necessary treatment that
would address the ailment and that also is applicable to the Nigeria
case,” he said. “This nation’s sickness got worse 12 years ago when the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took over the mantle of leadership and
only a very vibrant, credible and result-oriented person like our
presidential candidate, Nuhu Ribadu, has all it takes to deliver the
country from this sickness”

Mr Tinubu, who
criticised the economic policies of the ruling party right, explained
that the present situation had further degenerated to the extent that
“Nigerians now need good luck to sleep at night with electricity, need
good luck to land safely at the airport and also requires so much good
luck to drive safely on our roads that has turned death traps.”

Late arrival mars rally

The campaign train
of the party had arrived at the Samuel Ogbe Stadium venue of the rally,
only to meet a handful of party faithful. Supporters had thronged to
the stadium as early as 10am, and had withstood the scorching sun for
hours as they waited for the candidates. However, by 3pm, most of them
drifted away. At 5pm, the campaign train, led by Edo State Governor,
Adams Oshiomhole, arrived the stadium.

After appologising for the delay, on behalf of the entire party
leaders, Mr Oshiomhole said: “Obasanjo promised to provide stable power
supply in six months, but we are yet to have it after 12 years. They
promised to provide seven million jobs, but they have destroyed more
than seven million jobs. We need to play back those tapes to remind
them. Nuhu Ribadu confronted corruption and defeated it. He brought
governors and ministers to justice. He might soon bring presidents to
justice.”