Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila has described the ongoing fuel and cash scarcities as a ‘rigging’ plot.
Gbajabiamila said the plotters aimed at stopping All Progressives Congress (APC) flag bearer Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from winning Saturday’s presidential election.
He spoke Thursday during his 2003 Constituency Outreach Program at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere.
It was the 20th edition of the programme.
It featured thousands of the Speaker’s constituents including movie director and lawmaker Desmond Elliott, politicians and monarchs.
Lamenting the dire effects of the naira scarcity on Nigerians, Gbajabiamila argued that it was a contrived crisis, adding that the plan was to rig out Tinubu from the race three weeks to the polls
He said: “No money, no cash to eat, to go out in the last three, four weeks; that is nothing but rigging before of election.
“It is done for a purpose and a purpose only: to make sure that the man all of Nigeria wants does not win this election.
“But, you know, I am happy. I take solace in one thing: that God is a wonderful God, that in all their machinations, I see at every turn, God’s hands in this project.
“The man who they attempted to rig the election against, even three weeks before the elections, but he’s still standing and standing strong, that people are singing in the North, East and West.
“Songs are coming out and saying whether you lock up the money, whether you close the doors to the filling station, people are singing that they will go out and they will vote for Asiwaju.
“That is the man that God’s hands are on his project.”
He reasoned that Tinubu’s performance against APC heavyweights at the party’s presidential primaries was evidence of divine intervention.
Gbajabiamila said: “A man who competed against over 20 other aspirants. A man who was not in office, a civilian outside office who contested against 20 other aspirants, including the sitting Vice President, Senate President, Ministers, government officials and he still came out on top; that is God’s hands in that project.
“A man who after the primaries, all of a sudden, the only opposition party, the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party), broke into two and you have something called the G5; that is God’s hands in that project.”
He expressed hopes that the elections would be violence free.
Credit: thenationonlineng.net
