The Senior Special Assistant to
the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, says if the opposition
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, wants to make family the issue in the coming
elections, the APC would gladly accept the challenge.
“Let this be the subject for 2019
election,” he told State House Correspondents in an interaction on Wednesday.
Reacting to various comments by
several organs of the opposition party on remarks made by the President on
views publicly expressed by his wife, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari in an
interview, the presidential spokesman said questions raised of the President by
the PDP in regard to his wife only amounted to an own goal.
“The PDP leadership cannot afford
to make family an issue in this campaign. Need I say more? The only thing I
want to add is that PDP is engaging in mud-slinging because it finds it easier
than speaking on their despicable 16-year record in the course of which they
abused the trust of Nigerians.
“The PDP doesn’t see anything
beyond grabbing power, power at all costs. As an opposition party, they have
failed. They have remained disconnected with the masses of our people.
“It is an irony that a party that
boasted as being the largest in Africa is now begging small parties for
alliances. Even if they get all those paper parties behind them, they will
still fail. A Presidential contest is more than the issuance of daily press
releases containing falsehoods.
“They have launched a campaign
for the Presidency, a campaign that has failed to get any traction. PDP members
are themselves admitting that the campaign hadn’t made a good start, that
attendance at rallies had unarguably been thin. The whole thing is not working;
that President Buhari is unstoppable,” Garba Shehu said.
He continued, “Rather than a
so-called cabal, an imaginary creation attached to all past governments of the
country, President Buhari is remote-controlled by the 200 million-plus Nigerian
people whose interest is uppermost in everything he says and does.
“The PDP doesn’t have the
strength and support to fight President Buhari. They don’t have the records in
security, economy and the war against corruption to mount any meaningful
challenge. They have no records of accomplishments in infrastructure.
“In the 16 years they held sway,
they have nothing to show for the colossal oil revenues earned, including USD
16 billion doled upfront from the Central Bank for power, without a single
megawatt to show for all that money. That is why they are dragging the
President’s wife into their politics.”
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