The declaration of President Buhari that he was going to seek a re-election come 2019 on the platform of his party, The All Progressives Congress is still generating a lot of reactions. Since his declaration yesterday at the National Executive Committee of his party, the response has been both in favour and against. One man whose reaction was much expected and did not come as a surprise is that of the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayo Fayose, as he has continued his criticisms of the President even before he declared for the second term. It is a public knowledge that the Ekiti state governor who himself is going for the presidency come 2019, has never been shy to voice out his hatred towards president Buhari and this chronicles to the pre-2015 elections and during the time he was sick and had to travel to London for treatments.
Fayose while reacting to the declaration took to his social media handle to rubbish the President’s re-election ambition, saying people are tired and Buhari whom he referred to as ‘Grandpa’ should go and retire and leave the younger ones to take charge. In a series of tweets on his Twitter page, he said:
Buhari has done more harm to this country. His ambition is a means by which Nigerians will tell him good riddance to bad rubbish when they boot him out of office. He is an easy candidate to defeat in the poll because he has failed woefully.
That 2nd term ambition of President Buhari is dead on arrival. We don’t want Grandpa as president anymore. Nigeria does not deserve a Buhari as president in 2019. He is old and tired.When people don’t know when to take their leave & say bye, Nigerians will show them the exit door
Buhari has failed in all fronts. He has failed in his so-called fight against corruption, he has failed in the economic front. He has not done well in term of security. Gruesome killing of Nigerians is now a daily occurrence in Nigeria.
But is PDP as a political party and members making the same mistakes they made in 2015? Rather than focusing on issues and ideologies that they feel is better than that of the APC and sell that to Nigerians as to why they are better, having confessed to having failed for 16years, they are trying to damage the image of individuals and continue the blame game.
I feel both APC and PDP should focus on what is important and stop the attacks on persons they feel they do not like his or her face. Such things are irrelevant and that was one of the major reasons they (PDP) lost in 2015 Presidential elections, and it is highly likely it happens again, given the rate at which party members are going with their bashing of persons.