Elections are fast approaching and the major opposition political party in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are feeling like they have this in the bag, as they released a statement saying the All Progressives Congress (APC) is already doomed for making President Buhari their sole Presidential candidate going into the 2019 Presidential Elections.
In a statement released on Thursday by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan said:
“The emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari, who has become grossly unpopular among Nigerians and members of the international community, as the APC’s sole Presidential candidate, is a recipe for APC’s crushing defeat in the 2019 Presidential Election.”
He gave the reason behind President Muhammadu Buhari was picked as the APC sole Presidential candidate in the forthcoming 2019 elections as being Muhammadu Buhari as being scared of a contest in a possible APC Presidential Primaries. He said:
“He [Muhammadu Buhari] fear to contest an elective presidential primary, for which he & a few APC leaders scared away other presidential contestants within their party with threats & high nomination fees, has ruined APC’s chances of fielding a better candidate for the election.”
“Had president Buhari shed his desperation for power and allowed for internal democracy within the APC particularly when it became clear that Nigerians across the world have become averse to his reelection, due to his incompetence and insensitivity to the plight of the citizens there would have been little hope for APC.
In muzzling contest in APC and gleefully emerging a sole candidate president Buhari has merely won a Pyrrhic victory a general without a troop, with no capacity to face a general election as the army of stakeholders and the masses that supported him in 2015 have since left him because of his unfulfilled promises and many failures in governance
Now that Mr. President has confirmed by his body language that he had no chance in a party he leads, how then can he stand a chance in the general elections where millions of Nigerians who are suffering untold hardship because of his misrule are only waiting to deal him a blow with their votes?
Owing to Buhari’s incompetence Nigeria’s’ purchasing power has become an abysmally low. Industries have wound up with attendant mass job losses, foreign direct investment has hit an all-time low. International partners have totally lost confidence in doing with our compatriots while this administration has no economic blueprint except borrowing.
Since President Buharis declaration to contest the 2019 true democrat and other well-meaning citizens have continued to leave APC in droves to the repositioned PDP, which has become the rallying point for all Nigerians, in their collective quest for a new president among the PDP
Moreover, while it is settled that president Buhari is no match to any of our presidential aspirants all indices point to his imminent defeat as the PDP remain committed to a credible free fair and transparent, presidential primaries. Where Nigerians will freely participate to throw up that will lead our nation to the path of Unity, Peace, and governance and economic prosperity for our people.