The main opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP has asked President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to face their woes and leave its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, alone.
PDP stated this in a reaction to APC’s allegation that Atiku is the patron of #Revolution now championed by Omoyele Sowore.
Kola Ologbondiya, PDP National Publicity Secretary, in a statement released Friday night, urged the Buhari Presidency and the APC to leave Atiku alone and face their self-inflicted resentment from Nigerians by answering for their misrule for which compatriots have now become agitated on all fronts.
Ologbondiya said it was despicable that the Buhari Presidency and the APC had not yet realized that Nigerians were aware that since their defence
fell apart at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, they had become nervous and desperate to invent any means to frame and drag down
Atiku, a plot that had already failed.
He noted that “the attention of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been drawn to yet another pitiable and disgraceful press statement by the discomfited All Progressives Congress (APC) wherein it once again resorted to fabrications, insults, and attempts to invent allegations against the peoples’ candidate, Atiku Abubakar.”
According to the PDP Spokesperson, “it is indeed not surprising that the APC, in its desperation, is now playing opposition, which is a role fitting of it, because it does not have the mandate of the people; the very reason it cannot command the respect, loyalty, and support of the citizens in the midst of its misrule.”
He maintained that, “Atiku Abubakar, as a leader of choice, has never faltered in displaying the highest sense of patriotism, restraint and decorum in his positions on national issues and, standing with overwhelming majority of Nigerians, cannot be intimidated or distracted from pursing the retrieval of his stolen Presidential mandate at the tribunal.”
“Instead of fixating on Atiku, the APC should help the Commander-in-Chief to provide answers for escalated insecurity in our country under his
watch; with insurgents, marauders, bandits, and kidnappers holding our nation hostage and turning her into a killing field and large funeral palour in the last four years.
“Furthermore, the APC should rather be helping President Buhari to answer Nigerians on how his administration wrecked our once robust economy, entrenched corruption, frittered trillions of naira, turned our nation into world poverty capital and foisted joblessness, acute hunger and starvation; human right abuses and downright impunity, which have spurred resentment to the extent that Nigerians are now desperate to take their destinies in the hands with many resorting to suicide and slavery missions abroad.
“Moreover, the APC should look inwards, do some soul searching and face the miseries it sired instead of seeking a scapegoat where there is none.
“Let it, therefore, be known to the APC and the Buhari Presidency that the PDP and Nigerians stand with Atiku Abubakar in the collective national
determination to retrieve our stolen presidential mandate at the court and we are confident that justice for the people will prevail at the end of the day,” Ologbondiya said.
