Oshiomhole said, “I want to be a Senator, not a Senator sharing grinding machines for widows, buying motor bikes or Keke Napeps for 10 out of 10,000 youths.”
By Jeffrey Agbo
Edo North Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has said he wants to go to the Senate to cause real change in the budgetary process.
The former national chairman of the APC stated this on Friday at the inauguration of his campaign in Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State.
“I am troubled by the way we manage our budget at the National Assembly. I want to go there and argue on the floor of the Assembly that we should change our budgetary system. Our budget must work for the people,” said Oshiomhole.
“I want to be a senator, not a senator sharing grinding machines for widows, buying motor bikes or Keke Napeps for 10 out of 10,000 youths.
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“I don’t need to be a senator to support windows and youths. I have done that and I am still doing that, today I am paying school fees for people who don’t have money to go to school.”
Oshiomhole, also a former governor of the state, said that if he could fight on the street for ordinary Nigerians, he would even fight harder on the floor of the Senate to ensure that his constituents received democratic dividends.
“I can’t have N500 million for constituency project and go and buy Keke napeps (tricycles) motor bikes and grinding machines, that is not lawmaking,” Oshiomhole said.
“The minister of works told me that the reason road constructions are not completed is that the National Assembly will take half of the money budgeted for a road and approve four other roads on that approved fund, this is why we have unfinished roads all over Nigeria.
“I will use the floor of the Senate to ensure that when the executive brings budget, you don’t start new road when the existing ones are not completed.”
Oshiomhole, who is also a former president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, urged Nigerians to vote for Bola Tinubu because of his track record of performance as governor of Lagos.
