The Peoples Democratic Party
Presidential Presidential Campaign Organisation, PPCO, has reacted to call that
its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar should step down from contesting the
February election.
Recall that the spokesperson of
the Strategic Campaigns of President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation,
Festus Keyamo had challenged Abubakar to step down and endorse Buhari.
However, PPCO spokesperson, Kola
Ologbondiyan said with the massive support the former Vice President enjoys, he
can’t step down.
Speaking during a press conference,
on Sunday, the spokesperson of PPCO, Kola Ologbondiyan said Buhari shouldn’t
set Nigeria on fire because he won’t be the first President to be defeated.
According to Ologbondiyan, “We
want the Buhari Presidency to note that it is preposterous for anybody, no
matter how highly placed, to think that our great party, the PDP and our
Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who enjoys the support of overwhelming
majority of Nigerians, can be subdued out of the political space in our
country.
“Our heroes past fought against
colonialism and won. Our modern heroes fought the military and gained today’s
democracy for our nation so that every Nigerian can enjoy freedoms and rights
as guaranteed in the 1999 Constitution (as amended). Nigerians are therefore
not ready to surrender these freedoms and rights to neo-totalitarianism or
allow anybody to suppress them in their own land.
“We therefore counsel President
Buhari to tame his desperation for power. Our nation has had many Presidents
before President Buhari and there will be many more after him.
“President Buhari will not be the
first President to be defeated in an election as such he should not set our
nation on fire just because he is feeling the air of rejection due to his
incompetence and the gale of corruption in his administration.
“Our party is courageously going
into the general elections with the support of overwhelming majority of
Nigerians and they are not ready to accept any result that does not reflect
their already expressed wishes and aspirations.”
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