Ladoja to Buhari: Change should begin with you, and your cabinet

In response to the ‘Change Begins with Me’ campaign recently launched by the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has said that change must begin with President Muhammadu Buhari and his cabinet.

This is also as the former governor of Oyo State, criticised the postponement of the Edo State governorship election.

He said had it been that APC had enough evidence it would win the election, the polls would not have been postponed.

The Accord Party national leader stated this at his Bodija residence as he addressed newsmen after observing the Eid prayer at the University of Ibadan Central Mosque.

The Senator who said he was in support of the launch of “Change Begins with Me,” however said that President Buhari and his cabinet must bell the cat, as their doing so would ginger other Nigerians to follow.

The former governor, doubting how the present administration’s fight against corruption would succeed when civil servants are owed six months salaries, made reference to the Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi’s stand on Buhari’s fight against corruption.

He said, “It is mixed, look at what Emir Sanusi said. Sanusi does not believe that there is sincerity with the anti-corruption crusade. As long as you have a lot of roadblocks, there will be more corruption. Liberalisation is better. Do you need to bribe anybody to get GSM today? Go and try it in the days of NITEL. They will ask you to go and bring the ladder and you had to bribe them for them to render the service.

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“Corruption is not only a public servant or politician thing. It is endemic in us and it is caused by blockade, red tape. Remove the red tape and you will see. Sanusi has said it that the dollar has gone up but there is corruption there.

“There is no corruption and yet some people can buy a dollar at N197 and those that want to employ people and do business can go and buy at over N400 and we want the economy to improve? All these do not add up. Who does he (Buhari) want to please? That is subsidy, if you do it for Muslim you have to do it for the Christians.”

Commenting on the recently postponed Edo State governorship election he said, “I think the change starts with President Buhari. Look at what the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said about the change in date of the election. They said it is colossal waste and nobody has convinced us about the postponement. They cited security reasons. Billions of naira has gone down the drain. I am not in their party. My party has no candidate in Edo. I just know that it is wrong.”

By Ebere Ndukwu …

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