PDP can't win 23 states in 2015 - Aregbesola by Tunde Odesola, Osogbo

Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has said President Goodluck
Jonathan was merely "bragging" by saying that the Peoples Democratic
Party must win atleast 23 states in 2015 general elections.
Speaking at a quarterly interactive programme with journalists, Ogbeni
Till Daybreak, on Friday, Aregbesola said the president and PDP were
free to brag.
He said, "They are free to brag; this is the season of political
bragging. Politicians brag when election is near."
Jonathan spoke at the Wadata Plaza national headquarters of the PDP in
Abuja last Thursday during the party's 61st National Executive
Committee meeting.
Debunking the rumour by the PDP that he slapped his deputy, Mrs Titi
Laoye-Tomori, Aregbesola, who said he had never fought in his life,
added that he had never beaten any of his children.
He said, "A man who beats a woman is sick. More so, my deputy is older
than me. Can an Omoluabi (virtuous person) beat an elderly person?
"It is what they (PDP) can do. They thought we are like them; no, we
are not comparable. Killing and maiming were the orders of the day
when theyruled Osun State."
Aregbesola, who said the Action Congress of Nigeria will defeat any
candidate presented by the PDP, stressed that the people of Osun could
see the remarkable difference between the ACN and the PDP.
"The PDP represents no threat at all. We will defeat anybody they put
forward as candidate. Government exists to relieve the people of their
burder but the PDP exacerbates the problems of the people," he
boasted.
Explaining that occupying the post of governor is not easy, Aregbesola
said, "The State Security Service officials follow me everywhere; they
follow me to my bedroom, they check the toilet before I use it. If I
want to go and visit my mother, they will go and check it before my
visit."