Apart from Buhari and GEJ, we have several others running for the presidential title in the upcoming elections and one of the is Onovo.
The Presidential candidate of the National Conscience Party, Mr. Martin
Onovo, is
confident of winning the February presidential election. See excerpts from his interview with Punch Newspaper below:
I am obviously the most prepared candidate as you can see from our
vision. We have witnessed misgovernance in Nigeria. We have identified
with Prof. Chinua Achebe, Prof. Wole Soyinka, the Hon. Justice Muhammed
Uwaiz, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, and so on. We have the solution to Nigeria’s problems.
But some people say the
contest is between President Goodluck Jonathan and Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
and that other aspirants like yourself are only adding up to the
number.
We think differently. The majority of Nigerians see the two candidates
as the problems with the country. Their parties have been indicted for
rigging elections in the past. They have brazenly violated Section 91 of
the Electoral Act on election finance. They both deploy slush funds.
Jonathan, globally reputed to be clueless and Buhari, an old grandpa,
cannot win in a free and fair election. Nigerian people have openly
rejected both of them but the corrupt power brokers in the country still wish to impose one of them on us by manipulating the process. We are sure they will fail.
Why are you so confident of your chances in the election?
I am supremely confident because I think properly and I believe that
most Nigerians think properly and will do the right thing by voting for
the National Conscience Party. We have promised to reduce fuel price by
improving domestic crude oil refining, which translates to lower cost,
but the incumbent oversaw the subsidy fraud.
We have also promised to increase minimum wage
by decreasing the maximum wage while maintaining the wage bill;
meanwhile, the incumbent government has been delaying salaries and owing
pensions.
We will spend about $9bn to double power generation in two and half
years. Since 1999, Nigeria has spent about $51bn on power, according to
the Financial Intelligence
Magazine report, but generation has remained at the same level, which is
about 3,000MW. So, every reasonable voter will vote for NCP because the
NCP is committed to serving the Nigerian people and has done so since
it was founded.
During the 2011 general elections, you also said you would sacrifice
your life for the development of your people (Nigerians), if the
sacrifice involves you leading soldiers to Sambisa forest to rescue the
Chibok schoolgirls now, are you ready?
We will all die sometime. Nobody lives here forever. Can you confirm
that the girls are in Sambisa forest today? We will first determine
where the girls are, who is detaining them or keeping them from their
families and then, we can take appropriate actions for their rescue or
ransom. There is a story that they were sold or married off. We will acquire intelligence information, confirm it and then act appropriately.
You said recently that if elected as president, your government
would expel Boko Haram, don’t you think the target is too bogus?
Bogus? We need to expel Boko Haram from our territory. We can expel
them. We will most definitely expel them when elected. Our forces are
larger and better trained than the senseless rag-tag band of Boko Haram
cowards. We will motivate, equip and arm our men better to defeat Boko
Haram if they do not surrender after a stern warning. Only a bad
government like the illegitimate and corrupt one in place now will
tolerate Boko Haram after the incident at Federal Government College,
Buni-Yadi, Yobe State where about 59 of our children were killed in
horrific circumstances