The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential
Campaign Council in
Ekiti State has challenged the All Progressives
Congress (APC) to tell
Nigerians the political history of those President
Muhammadu Buhari will inaugurate today to lead his reelection campaign.
The PDP campaign council led by former Governor of
the state, Ayodele Fayose, said: “The corrupt people offloaded by the PDP are
now the ones to tell Nigerians to reelect President Buhari. Where lies his
integrity?"
In a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Sunday by his
Director of Media and Publicity, Lere Olayinka, the campaign council urged
Ekiti people in particular and Nigerians in general to take note of those
President Buhari will present today as vice chairmen (North and South), director
general as well as zonal coordinators of his campaign.
According to the statement, "PDP, like every other
organisation, had its fair share of bad elements, and we are happy that the
party was able to purge itself of these corrupt elements. They are now
comfortably calling the shots in the APC, playing leading roles in the
reelection campaign of a president they told Nigerians had integrity.
"At the top echelon of the campaign council of
their Mr. Integrity is
Rotimi Amaechi, a man who has lived close to 20
years of his existence on public fund, having spent eight years as Speaker of
Rivers State House of Assembly and seven and half years as the State governor
on the ticket of PDP. Out of 20 years of his political life, he has only spent
four in APC.
"Senator George Akume, who is the Vice
Chairman (North) of the
Buhari's Campaign Council was Governor of Benue
State from May 29, 1999 to May 29, 2007, on the platform of PDP while Senator
Ken Nnamani, who is the Vice Chairman (South) was Senate President between 2005
and 2007 on PDP platform.
Senator Aliyu Wamakko, who is to lead Buhari's
campaign in the Northwest was elected governor of Sokoto State in 2007 and 2011
on the platform of PDP while his Northeast counterpart, Senator Ali Ndume, was elected
to the Senate for Borno South in 2011 as PDP candidate.
In the North Central, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, a
two term PDP governor of Nasarawa State is President Buhari's campaign
director.
"Most importantly, Senator Godswill Akpabio,
who is the Campaign Director for South-south was until a few months ago,, the
PDP Leader in the Senate and he was two term governor of Akwa Ibom State as
well as commissioner.
"They have now rechristened these corrupt
people that could not fit into the reformed and rejuvenated PDP as
progressives, with President Buhari giving them protection. Even properties
seized from them when
EFCC was still fighting corruption and not being
used as attack-dog against opposition elements as being done by the APC
government have all been returned.
"Furthermore, they have been assigned with
task of selling Buhari, an expired product, to Nigerians so that they can keep
enjoying his protection at the expense of suffering Nigerians.
"Therefore, beyond the APC's sing song of
Nigeria not going back to the PDP 16 years of alleged corruption, the reality
is that the leading lights of APC today are those the PDP found unworthy and offloaded
to the political transfer market. And the way the APC is going with its
desperate political recruitments, we only hope Nigerians won't one day see
Evans, the alleged kidnapper, mounting the rostrum to campaign for the
reelection of the president."
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