2019: It’s Game Up For President Buhari – PDP
BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said that what is left for the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency is for it to end its scheming, tender a direct apology for its abysmal performance and get prepared to accept defeat and leave the stage for a more innovative and people-oriented President, to be elected by Nigerians on the platform of the repositioned PDP, come 2019.
This is just as it said that the President Buhari’s desperate bid to use his veto to frustrate the amendment to the 2018 Electoral Bill passed by the National Assembly, which practically checks all election rigging strategies of the All Progressives Congress (APC), shows that the president and his party are now clutching on straws.
The opposition PDP also said that all social, economic and political indicators show that the game is up for President Buhari ahead of the 2019 general election, in spite of the many anti-democratic machinations of the Presidency and the APC.
The PDP also said since Nigerians rejected his veto and approved that the National Assembly should override him, the rigging plans perfected by the Buhari Presidency and the APC have been dismantled.
These were contained in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, who further said that the Buhari Presidency and the APC in their plans failed to note that Nigerians are already aware that President Buhari is mortally afraid of the amendments because it effectively checks the use of underage and alien voters, vote-buying, alteration of results and manipulation of voter register; the very basis for which APC and Buhari Presidency have been boasting of winning the 2019 elections.
According to the Ologbondiyan; “Nigerians are aware that President Buhari does not want the amendment because it provides for instant transmission of results from the polling to collation center, thus eliminating interferences and planned alteration of results by the APC.
“President Buhari is not happy because the amendment makes it mandatory for INEC to publish voter register online, thus terminating APC’s plot to doctor voter register to suit their rigging script.”
The PDP said Nigerians are full of commendation for members of the National Assembly, who, in spite of executive intimidation and President Buhari’s determination to set aside the amended electoral law, have maintained their patriotic stand in the overall quest by Nigerian citizens for a free, fair and credible 2019 general election.
The opposition Party said the APC should know that Nigerians have since seen through their lies and machination, including the exposed plot to use security agencies to intimidate oppositions.
Ologbondiyan said; “The citizens are, now more than ever before, ready to resist all anti-democratic machinations in the 2019 general elections.
