PDP: With Buhari as Sole Presidential Candidate, APC Is Now Doomed

 

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday stated that with the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari as the sole presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the ruling party is now irredeemably doomed for a crushing defeat in the 2019 general election.

In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party pointed out that President Buhari’s fear to contest an elective presidential primary, for which he and a few APC leaders scared away other presidential contestants within their party with threats and high nomination form fees, ended up ruining APC’s chance of fielding a good candidate for the election.

According to the opposition party, “Had President Buhari shed his desperation for power and allowed for internal democracy within the APC, particularly when it became clear that Nigerians across board have become averse to his re-election due to his incompetence and insensitivity to the plight of the citizens, there would have been a little hope for the 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 the 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 election where millions of Nigerians, who are suffering untold hardship because of his misrule are only waiting to deal him a blow with their votes?”

PDP added that owing to Buhari’s incompetence, Nigerians’ purchasing power had become abysmally low, “industries have wound up with attendant mass job losses, foreign direct investments have hit all-time low, international partners have totally lost confidence in doing business with our compatriots, while the administration had no economic blueprint except borrowing.”

It said since President Buhari’s declaration to contest the 2019 election, true democrats and other well-meaning citizens had continued to leave the APC in droves to the “repositioned” PDP, which has now become the rallying platform for all Nigerians, in their collective quest for a new president among the array of very credible aspirants in the PDP.

The party said while it is settled that President Buhari is no match to any of its presidential aspirants, all indices point to his imminent defeat as the PDP remain committed to a credible, free, fair and transparent presidential primary, where Nigerians will freely participate to throw up that president that will lead the country to the path of unity, peace, good governance and economic prosperity for Nigerians.