THE Presidential Campaign Organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party, on Sunday, told the Presidential candidate of the ruling All‎ Progressives Congress, APC, President Muhammadu Buhari that no amount of intimidation, harassment, arrest and detention of its key members nationwide ahead of the forthcoming Presidential election would save him from total defeat at the poll. Addressing newsmen in Abuja yesterday, the Director of Media and Publicity of the Organisation, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan also advised President Buhari not to allow his personal interest to set the nation on fire ‎and avail his mind to accept his imminent defeat “when it eventually comes on February 16″. 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”. He declared that President Buhari should know that Nigerians have chosen Atiku Abubakar as their next President to return the nation to the path of national cohesion and economic prosperity, adding that “this national consensus is bigger than President Buhari or any other Nigerian for that matter”.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 04, 2019 12:00 UTC