The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said
that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and
President Muhammadu Buhari will lose the 2019
election going by the endorsement of its
presidential candidate by different groups and
individuals just as it said that: ‘our nation will
never succumb to Buhari Presidency’s assault on
our National Assembly, the attack on our judiciary
and besieging of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) where President
Buhari’s relation is being foisted as the head of
the collation center.’
PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, a press
conference on Sunday, said: “The Economist
Intelligence Unit (EIU), after consideration of all
factors, reinforced the global unanimity and
affirmation by various credible and independent
bodies within and outside Nigeria, including the
Afenifere, the Ohaneze Ndigbo, the Northern
Elders’ Forum, the Pan Niger Delta Forum, the
Middle Belt Forum, among several others, that
Atiku Abubakar will win the February 16,
Presidential election.
“Nigerians have chosen democracy with its
tenets, as a way of life, including justice and
constitutional freedom it offers the citizens to
determine who their leaders should be at any
given time, and nobody, not even President
Buhari, can take away this freedom and rights,
under any circumstance whatsoever.
“Nigerians know how the PDP restored, nurtured
and allowed our democracy to thrive to the extent
that it was possible for the opposition to win in a
general election with President Buhari as the
major beneficiary. The PDP allowed a free and fair
election, respected the will of the people and
handed over power to President Buhari, without
any shenanigans that would have denied him
victory.
Gentlemen of the press, the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) has called you up today to announce
to President Muhammadu Buhari and the All
Progressives Congress (APC) that Nigeria is
bigger than them and that there is no way
Nigerians will allow them to rig the 2019 general
elections or achieve their self-succession plan.
Our history as a nation has amply shown that no
individual leader, no matter the authority wielded,
has ever succeeded, at any point in time, in
subduing the spirit of our nation or place our
people under a siege and not even this strange
recourse to importation of mercenaries into our
country can change that reality
The world can recall how certain leaders in the
past attempted to subvert our constitutional
democracy, arrogate excessive powers to
themselves and how they failed in the face of the
Nigerian spirit.
Today, that Nigerian spirit, with which we won
our democracy and nurtured it to this stage, is
being assailed by the APC and the Buhari
Presidency with their unrelenting constitutional
breaches, attacks on our democratic institutions,
violation of human rights, siege on our electoral
system and opening of our territorial borders to
mercenaries, all in the bid to subdue our citizenry
and achieve a self succession plan, having
realized that there is no way they can win in a
free, fair and peaceful election.
There is a ferocious attempt to take away our
liberty as a people. There is total clampdown,
arrest and detention of dissenting voices; invasion
of media houses, manhandling and illegal
detention of journalists by state forces have
become the order of the day; but all these will not
break the Nigerian spirit.
Our nation will never succumb to Buhari
Presidency’s assault on our National Assembly,
the attack on our judiciary and besieging of the
Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) where President Buhari’s relation is being
foisted as the head of the collation center.
Nigerians have decided to vote out President
Buhari, come February 16, and no amount of
intimidation, clampdown and harassment can
change that resolve.
It has become manifest that compatriots,
irrespective of creed, ethnicity and political
leanings, are today extremely eager to vote out
the Buhari Presidency which, out of sheer
incompetence, has wrecked our once robust
economy and brought so much poverty, hunger,
pain and anguish to Nigerians, once reputed as
the happiest people in the world.
The Buhari Presidency and the APC have come to
the stark reality that the influences on which they
rode to power in 2015 no longer avail. They have
come to the moment of truth that Nigerians have
seen through their lies, propaganda, false
promises, beguilements and holier-than-thou
posturing and are now poised to take back their
country at the polls.
Only last week, the Economist Intelligence Unit
(EIU), after consideration of all factors, reinforced
the global unanimity and affirmation by various
credible and independent bodies within and
outside Nigeria, including the Afenifere, the
Ohaneze Ndigbo, the Northern Elders’ Forum, the
Pan Niger Delta Forum, the Middle Belt Forum,
among several others, that Atiku Abubakar will
win the February 16, Presidential election, having
secured the overwhelming support of Nigerians
across the board.
Today, the APC and the Buhari Presidency have
become uncontrollably feverish over the
overwhelming acceptance gained by Atiku
Abubakar in all the geo-political zones,
particularly in the North West states of Sokoto,
Kebbi, Zamfara, Kano, Katsina, Kaduna and
Jigawa states, hitherto considered as President
Buhari’s political stronghold.
Having lost genuine followership in the North
West, the North Central, the North East and a
greater part of the South West, all of which gave
them a ride to victory in 2015, and having no
prospects in the South East and South South, the
APC and the Buhari Presidency are now seeking
ways to derail our electoral process.
This accounts for the manipulations in INEC and
the smuggling in of mercenaries from Niger
Republic to populate APC rallies, ostensibly to
unleash them on our nation immediately it is
clear that President Buhari is losing at the polls.
However, the PDP wants President Buhari to note
that Nigeria will not fall. Our country, as a nation
of over 200 million resilient men and women, is
bigger than President Buhari as well as the APC
and would resist all anti-democratic forces being
unleashed against our democratic order.
Nigerians have chosen democracy with its tenets,
as a way of life, including justice and
constitutional freedom it offers the citizens to
determine who their leaders should be at any
given time, and nobody, not even President
Buhari, can take away this freedom and rights,
under any circumstance whatsoever.
Nigerians know how the PDP restored, nurtured
and allowed our democracy to thrive to the extent
that it was possible for the opposition to win in a
general election with President Buhari as the
major beneficiary. The PDP allowed a free and fair
election, respected the will of the people and
handed over power to President Buhari, without
any shenanigans that would have denied him
victory.
Now that Nigerians are determined to vote out
President Buhari from office due to his
incompetence, divisiveness, executive high-
handedness and corruption, he must not allow his
ambition to set our nation on fire.
We therefore urge President Buhari to avail his
mind to accept his imminent defeat when it
eventually comes on February 16.
President Buhari should know that Nigerians have
chosen Atiku Abubakar as their next President to
return our nation to the path of national cohesion
and economic prosperity. This national consensus
is bigger than President Buhari or any other
Nigerian for that matter.
source:
www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/you-cannot-rig-this-election-nigeria-is-bigger-than-you-pdp-tells-buhari-apc/
