The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
says the presidency’s “continuous reference” to a successor for President
Muhammadu Buhari less than a year into his second tenure, is a “direct
acceptance of failure and lack of capacity” of his administration.
In a statement on Wednesday, Kola
Ologbondiyan, national publicity secretary of the opposition party, asked
Buhari to bury whatever interest he has in the 2023 presidential election.
Tunde Bakare, serving overseer of
the Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), had asked Buhari to be involved in the choice
of his successor in order not to destroy his legacies.
Femi Adesina, presidential
spokesman, had replied Bakare, saying that though Buhari is interested in who
succeeds him, he will not handpick his successor.
But the opposition party claimed
that Buhari’s interest in who takes over the baton of leadership from him “is
in direct aggression against the will of the people to freely elect a president
as guaranteed by the constitution”
“The party invites Nigerians to note
that such continued allusion to a successor by the Buhari Presidency shows that
the President and the APC have no agenda for the nation for the next three
years,” the statement read.
“It further underscores the
hopelessness of the administration and the sorry situation our nation is faced
with under President Buhari and the APC.
“It also exposes the reason
behind APC’s resort to blackmail, fabrication and attack on well-meaning
Nigerians instead of enunciating a direction for its incompetent administration.
“Our party, standing with
millions of Nigerians, counsels the Buhari Presidency to bury its confessed
interests in the 2023 Presidency and desist from making unsolicited allusions
and references to a successor, as failed leaders can only bequeath failure on a
people.
“The PDP therefore charges the
Buhari Presidency to immediately withdraw the offensive and provocative remark
to “hand Nigeria over”, in its response to Rev. Tunde Bakare’s comment on the
2023 Presidency.
“Our party cautions the Buhari
Presidency to note that Nigeria is a sovereign nation governed by rules and
that nobody, no matter how highly placed, has the power to hand her over to
anybody.
“The 1999 constitution (as
amended) does not confer the right to install the President of Nigeria on any
individual, but on the people of Nigeria through a free, fair and credible
election conducted without interference from anybody.”
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