The All Progressives Congress has said that the victory of Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), in the presidential poll will translate to better funding of Osun State by the Federal Government.
Director of Publicity of the APC in Osun State, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, said this in a congratulatory message to celebrate Buhari’s victory. A copy of the message was made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Wednesday.
The party expressed the confidence that the fortune of the state would change for the better since the state and the government at the centre would soon be ruled by the same party.
The statement said, “Buhari’s victory raises hope for greater development and promises a better, more reliable funding for the Osun State, which shares the same political philosophy with the President-elect.
“Osun people should not forget how the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government almost strangulated the APC and the (Governor Rauf) Aregbesola-led government after the governorship victory of August 9, 2014.
“Since then, it has been a back-breaking struggle; but with Buhari’s victory at the presidential election, change, real change of fortune, is on the way for Osun State.”
The APC added that Buhari’s victory on his fourth attempt at the presidency had shown that with persistence and dogged determination, one could achieve anything, no matter how difficult it might seem.
It said that Buhari’s electoral victory was not the change “but the beginning of the change Nigerians were yearning for.”
The statement further read, “Victory by itself is not change we envisage, but the gateway to the process of change. And it will require enormous work and sacrifice to get to the Promised Land. Osun needs to consolidate this victory by voting even more massively for the APC during the House of Assembly election on April 11, 2015.
“With Buhari’s victory, change has been ushered into the Nigerian political space, and hopefully will permeate all spectra of our national life.
“By the outcome of this presidential election, Nigeria has set in motion a truly democratic system which will place premium on the people as the traditional custodians of power.
“This election has left Nigerians with a series of fundamental lessons, paramount amongst which are that it takes courage, persistence and strength of character to succeed politically in effecting change in a system that had gone rotten like Nigeria over a period of 16 years of misrule by the PDP.”
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