The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
said thursday that the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari, as the presumed
presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has reassured
the opposition party of victory in the forthcoming general elections scheduled
for the first quarter of next year.
In a statement by its National
Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, the party pointed out that Buhari’s
fear to contest an elective presidential primary, for which he and a few APC
leaders scared away other presidential contestants within their party with
threats and high nomination form fees, had ended up ruining APC’s chance of
fielding a good candidate for the election.
According to the opposition
party, “Had President Buhari shed his desperation for power and allowed for
internal democracy within the APC, particularly when it became clear that Nigerians
across board have become averse to his re-election, due to his incompetence and
insensitivity to the plight of the citizens, there would have been little hope
for the APC.
“In muzzling contest in APC and
gleefully emerging a sole candidate, President Buhari has merely won a pyrrhic
victory; a General without a troop, with no capacity to face a general
election, as the army of stakeholders and the masses that supported him in 2015
have since left him because of his unfulfilled promises and many failures in
governance.
“Now that Mr. President has
confirmed by his body language that he had no chance in a party he leads, how
then can he stand a chance in the general elections, where millions of
Nigerians, who are suffering untold hardship because of his misrule are only waiting
to deal him a blow with their votes?”
PDP added, “Owing to Buhari’s
incompetence, Nigerians’ purchasing power had become abysmally low, industries
have wound up with attendant mass job losses; foreign direct investments have
hit all time low, international partners have totally lost confidence in doing
business with our compatriots, while the administration had no economic
blueprint except borrowing”.
The party said since Buhari’s
declaration to contest the 2019 election, true democrats and other well-meaning
citizens had continued to leave the APC in droves to the repositioned PDP,
which has now become the rallying platform for all Nigerians, in their
collective quest for a new president among the array of very credible aspirants
in the PDP.
The party said while it was
settled that Buhari would be no match to any of its presidential aspirants, all
indices point to his imminent defeat as the PDP remains committed to a
credible, free, fair and transparent presidential primary, where Nigerians will
freely participate to throw up that president that will lead the country to the
path of unity, peace, good governance and economic prosperity for our people.
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