President Muhammadu Buhari has
mocked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the emergence of former Vice
President Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate.
He stated that dollars were
shared at the PDP national convention and opined that most Nigerian politicians
were more materialistic in nature.
The president, who stated this at
the closing of the 3-day Interfaith Conference on “Religious Harmony in
Nigeria: Towards the 2019 General Elections’’, in Abuja on Saturday, said such
politicians did not always mean what they said.
Buhari narrated how he was
cheated (politically) during his previous attempts to occupy the presidential
seat in 2003, 2007 and 2011 by those he described as members of his religious
and ethnic groups.
The President rhetorically cited
the 2015 APC presidential primary where dollars were disbursed to delegates to
edge out of the race as well as one of the just concluded party primaries where
dollars were also used by aspirants to secure presidential ticket.
“The question of religion and
ethnicity is fraudulent. Some people are not sincere they don’t mean what they
say.
“I’m telling you and some of you
know during my primary (in 2015) my opponents said naira had finished and
people were given dollars.
“Even in their late primaries
recently dollars were being given, nobody takes naira.
“Really, it’s materialism that we
will fight to make sure that we stabilize every level and do justice to our
country.
“But, what I found out
regrettably is that we refused to learn by other people’s experience and we are
refusing to learn from our own mistakes,’’ he said.
In his keynote address,
Archbishop Justin Welby the Archbishop of Canterbury, stressed that it was the
responsibility of religious leaders to speak up and condemn all forms of
violent activities during political campaign or elections.
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