The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said Yoruba people of the South-West will assess President Goodluck Jonathan not by what he is promising to do for them, but what they have already experienced of him in the last six years.
The party, in a statement released at the weekend by its state directorate of Publicity, Research and Strategy in Osogbo, said the experience the South West has had under President Jonathan is the most painfully degrading that the Yoruba nation has ever had in the last half century, adding that Jonathan cannot therefore expect to be rewarded for this crime against the Yoruba people.
“The sheer neglect of the Yoruba people by Jonathan in the scheme of things was a display of sordid ingratitude and contempt for a people who did the most to help him become President “.
“All his promises to the Yoruba people are empty and deceitful. Our people not only know it, they feel it and they will act appropriately on March 28, 2015”.
The statement signed by the party’s spokesman in Osun, Barr. Kunle Oyatomi, describe as “sadistic”, the treatment the Jonathan administration meted out to Yoruba people, accusing it of starving virtually all Yoruba states controlled by the APC of their legitimate and constitutional funding in order to humiliate the people and stifle development in their area.
Oyatomi continued: “For such a President to now crawl about in Yorubaland, seeking their votes to continue in office is nothing short of insulting the intelligence of the Yoruba people. That is aggravated insolence.
“Jonathan will pay a price equal in magnitude to his deliberate crime against the Yoruba nation; for nobody pokes a dirty finger in the eyes of the Yoruba people and gets away with it. Jonathan will get the red card in Yorubaland, and he will fall.
“The party said that since Jonathan became comfortable in his position as President – largely through the efforts of Yoruba intellectuals and political leadership – the President has been so negatively disposed to Yoruba that his Federal Government did practically nothing of significance to encourage the sympathy of the Yoruba nation.
“It is therefore a wasted effort for the President to be frantically seeking the support of Yoruba traditional leaders who already know how bitter their people are against Jonathan,’ the APC said, adding that ‘Yoruba people can see, feel and taste the deceit in President Jonathan’s promises. They cannot trust him after the humiliating treatment of the last six years of Jonathan’s Presidency”.
