2015: Opposition ‘ll Take-Over Power from PDP, Says Daramola

Hon Bimbo Daramola

Anayo Okolie

Vice-Chairman, House Committee on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Hon Bimbo Daramola, has said that 2015 would provide an opportunity for the opposition to take over power from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Daramola who stated this during an interview with journalists in Lagos, noted that 2015 provides an opportunity for a turn around, saying  the opposition parties  have critically taken stock of what has been happening in the country and  it is time to say that enough is enough.

“It is a time to say we have played party loyalty for too long, we have played active politics for too long and it’s about time to now ask ourselves as individuals and as Nigerians whether we are better off than we were in 2011,” he said.

Daramola,  a member of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), said: “As a member of the opposition, I am not just  in opposition party because it is inherent in the opposition to criticise, no. I remember that President Goodluck Jonathan believes in his two year scorecard  that perhaps he has done  well and he asked Nigerians to judge him, that his period in office has been eventful and impactful.

“But if you ask me, I see a man struggling to win the trust and confidence of the people again. He met issues on ground and he assured Nigerians that he would address and deal with the issues and now he is returning back to Nigerians like saying go and judge the marking scheme to mark the exam  that you set for me’.’

“The teacher cannot tell the students to mark the exams he set. That to me is a role reversal.  He made those promises that he would deliver but an average Nigerian knows that his life has not been positively affected with what the government is professing or brandishing as its achievement,” the lawmaker said.

Speaking further, the lawmaker asked: “Do we have better roads now than what we had in 2011? Do we have more infrastructures now? Is life better now than what we had in 2011? These are the questions that must bother us.

“Nigerians are real people, when you vote a government and put that government in power, we expect real impact, real changes and as individuals, we do stock taking but as a nation we refuse to take stock.”

He however, posited that “2015 provides an opportunity for a turn around to be able to ask ourselves if we are better now. No matter how long you have gone on a wrong direction, you will never get to your destination until you make a turn around.

“The destination we are talking about is improved society, improved security, improved social infrastructure, improved life etc, These are the indices that you must look at to begin to assess whether a government is working or not.”