For referring to the year he assumed office as 2005 instead of 2015, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has described another gaffe by President Muhammadu Buhari’s as a national disgrace and embarrassment, insisting that those campaigning for Buhari’s reelection despite his clear demonstration of lack of intellectual capacity, were enemies of Nigeria and its citizens.
In a statement yesterday, Lere Olayinka, Director of Media and Publicity for the Atiku/Obi Presidential Campaign Council in Ekiti State, urged Nigerians to ask leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) how a man who could no longer remember when he assumed office should continue to preside over a country of over 200 million people. The President had said in Ado-Ekiti yesterday that, “I assure you that we are conscious of the promises we made when we came into office in 2005.”
Olayinka, who said he was sure those still supporting President Buhari will never pray that God should give their children his kind of brain, stressed that the only reason the cabal running the country wants Buhari to remain in office was to guarantee their 2023 presidential ambition and access to the national treasury.
“Nigerians must not allow the cabal to impose calamity on the country for another four years. They knew even in 2015 that President Buhari lacked both mental and physical capacity to run any business venture and that explained why he could not grow his cows from 150 for 12 years,” he stated.
Elsewhere, National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus said President Buhari was tired, weak and could not go further and therefore, should surrender power. Addressing PDP members in Bauchi, Secondus said: “Nothing can help him (Buhari) because he cannot interface, interact or engage. We believe that Atiku Abubakar can engage anybody in Nigeria.” He said the propaganda could not work for the APC, as the party could no longer deceive Nigerians.
Addressing supporters at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium in Bauchi yesterday, Atiku regretted supporting APC in the 2015 general elections. “Three years have passed, what has APC done for you except hunger, poverty and lies? Also, House Speaker, Yakubu Dogara enjoined the electorate to vote Atiku to stop the lingering poverty in the Northeast, saying if truly Nigeria was the capital of poverty, the Northeast was its stronghold.
Prince Uche Secondus