The presidency on Sunday
condemned the endorsement of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential
candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar by some groups.
Influential socio-cultural
bodies, including Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Northern Elders’ Forum, Pan-Niger
Delta Forum and the Middle Belt Forum backed Atiku to beat President Muhammadu
Buhari.
The groups met at Ladi Kwali
Hall, Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, on Sunday.
Reacting, Garba Shehu, the senior
special assistant to the president on media and publicity, in a statement made
available to newsmen on Sunday described endorsement by the socio-cultural
groups as irrelevant.
Shehu noted that the ‘gang up’ by
these socio-cultural group will have no effect on Buhari being re-elected in
Feb. 16, just like in 2015.
The statement read: “The Peoples
Democratic Party is hiding in the bunker of ethnicity to avoid their inevitable
defeat but that won’t change anything.
“The current scenario resembles
efforts to stop Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 by the same characters.
“It is an effort to repeat the
old experiment that failed is 2015. They failed to stop him from coming to
power in 2015 and they will fail yet again on February 16th.
“If all these groups are ganging
up against one person, that is President Buhari, it tells you who is the
formidable candidate in the election.
“This gang up they forged, one
more time will change nothing. It is for the people to decide.”
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More hate speech. Why can't you just do your own campaign and leave out our incoming president?
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