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The political candidate for All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has said the main focus of his administration when elected to power, is to convert the abilities of yahoo boys to something more productive.
This was as he slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his recent endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.
Urging Nigerians to vote for him if they want to swim in wealth, Tinubu noted that citizens deserve the best, saying “the children of boli and groundnut sellers should become doctors, engineers, nurses, etc.”
Tinubu made this statement during the speech at the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential campaign rally in Benin, Edo State.
He said: “I will turn Edo State into an energy State. I will convert Yahoo boys and make them useful by converting their talents and intellects to produce chips for industries. We can defeat poverty, ignorance, and homelessness. We have the knowledge, we have the brain to do it. Trust me. I am an expert in finding the way where there is no way. I found a way to tame the Atlantic and turn it to money- a making machine.”
Recalling what Obasanjo did to his administration as the Lagos State Governor, the former governor said, “Obasanjo seized our salaries, local government monies. Do you call that person a good or a wicked man?
In his words: “So, if he says he endorsed somebody, is it not poison that he is giving to you? One who doesn’t know the way cannot show the way. He is endorsing Obi but he doesn’t know the road.
“I know how to perform. I did it in Lagos and I will do it in Nigeria. I will bring an economic hub to Edo State, give skills to the boys, start credit lending, empower small-scale industries so that they can be able to be on their own and get rid of estimated billing.
“We will turn this state into an energy state. We will turn the so-called yahoo boys into experts in the manufacturing and creation of chips. We will bring long-term reforms.
“We can break the shackles of poverty, ignorance and homelessness. We will do it together. We have the knowledge and the brain. Trust me, I am an expert in finding the way where there is no way. I found a way to tame the Atlantic Ocean and turned it into a money-making machine. I found a way to stop the killing drainages to channelisation and prosperity. I have done many things. I have the power of thinking and doing.
“If you want prosperity, elect me. If you want skills to become rich, elect me. If you want security, elect me. If you say I should retire, you will retire knowledge, diamond and gold.”
In his remarks, a former National Chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole, solicited votes from Edo residents.
Oshiomhole asserted that the former Lagos State governor has a good track record and was instrumental in the fight against a single-party system.