The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told President Muhammadu Buhari
and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to perish the thought of staying
in the Presidency beyond May 29, 2019, as Nigerians have rejected them.
The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola
Ologbondiyan, on Monday, said the President already knows he has failed
adding that such accounts to why he is no longer confident whenever it
comes to issues of 2019 general elections.
The party said President Buhari’s media adviser, Femi Adesina, only
confirmed the obvious when he announced the apprehensions being
entertained by the President over the 2019 race, adding that he,
(President Buhari) must have appropriately assessed and rated his
administration as a failure.
Stating that the President would not be bordering about opponents if he
had done well in office, the PDP also charged the APC and the Presidency
to end their current attempts to use paid fifth columnists in their
failed bid to cause disharmony within the repositioned and rebranded
PDP.
It is instructive to note that the Presidency’s comment is coming after
the intimidating PDP mega rally in Dutse, Jigawa state, which sent a
clear signal to President Buhari and the APC.
If President Buhari had done well in office; if his government had not
wrecked our economy; if his government had not damaged our national
unity, resulting in the daily bloodletting in our country; if his
administration had not betrayed the people and failed in delivering even
the littlest of his campaign promises, President Buhari would not be
afraid of any opponent ahead of elections as stated by his media aide.
From Mr. Adesina’s comment, it is clear that the President is fully
aware that he has become grossly unpopular and cannot command any
electoral value. Both the President and his party must therefore
instruct themselves appropriately and completely bury the thought of
staying in office beyond May 2019.
We therefore advice the Presidency and the APC to jettison any plot to
force its way using intimidation, coercion and manipulations as such
would be firmly resisted by Nigerians.
In the same vein, we charge the APC and the President to note that its
resort to sponsoring fifth columnists on smear campaigns against our
repositioned and reinvigorated party has become of no effect as our
members and supporters in all the states and the six geo-political zones
across the nation are now, more than ever before, firmly united under
the new leadership of the party to vanquish the APC in the 2019 general
elections.
Finally, the re-positioned PDP re-assures Nigerians of level playing
ground and open political space in all processes leading to the
selection of candidates at all levels to ensure that the nation gets the
leadership it desires and ultimately return to the path of national
unity and prosperity.
