Only God can help PDP win poll
now — Gbagi

on march 12, 2015 at 7:35 am in news

Ex-minister accuses PDP govs, ministers of
abandoning president to campaign alone

Leave Buhari alone, face issue-based
campaign, he tells party

By Henry Umoru
ABUJA—AHEAD of the presidential and
general elections fixed for March 28 and April
11 respectively, former Minister of State for
Education, Kenneth Gbagi yesterday accused
the ministers, heads of Parastatals and aides
of President Goodluck Jonathan of leaving
the campaigns for the President alone to
handle, even as he said that only God would
help the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to
win the election.

He said, “What I am saying is that God is a
God of miracle, He can do miracle.”
Speaking with Vanguard yesterday at his
Asokoro residence, Gbagi also alleged that
governors of the PDP that cut across the
country were not working in tandem with
President Jonathan, just as he urged the
ruling party to desist from personal attack
on the Presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, General
Muhammadu Buhari, retd and face issue-based
campaigns if the PDP must win the polls.
He said, “The governors as it were are not
with Mr President, I repeat, the supposed
governors are not with Mr President. You
read a scoop two days ago that seven
governors defecting. Even if they don’t
physically defect, their body language and
instructions to their followers are different
from what we are seeing in the media. We
need to move drastically and quickly so that
we do not have a situation where we are
seated and we are captured. Governors across
Nigeria are not with the President.”

The 2014 Delta State governorship aspirant,
who asked those attacking the Chairman of
the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega to
stop that, stressed that fighting the INEC
boss was not necessary and justifiable, but
those who worked to win would be declared
the winners and those who did not, would
be declared the loser of the election.

Gbagi, who accused the PDP of not doing
enough in the area of selling the party, and
the achievements of the present
administration to Nigerians when it had the
opportunity to do that, warned against over
heating the polity, adding that if PDP
members, leaders, stakeholders had put in
their resources, energy and time to campaign
the way the President did , it would have
been a game sealed for PDP.

He said, “I am taken aback largely. You are
here with us when we did the election in
2011 and we were at the forefront. I am
disappointed that the entire campaign
situation has been left alone to the President
largely.

I have sojourned the nook and crannies of
Abuja and the north in the last few days
and my conclusion is that; where are the
ministers, where are the DGs, where are the
Permanent Secretaries, where are the agencies
of government. As it were, all have been
left in the hands of Mr President to do his
job all by himself.

“I personally sat and held Buhari spellbound
in 2011 election and we made slide successes.
I don’t see anybody, let all the ministers
come out and begin to pubic individually
what they have done in their ministry with
what they were given and how they spent
the money and leave accusing Buhari as a
person but tackle the issue of politics.”

he urged the
ruling party to desist from personal attack
on the Presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, General
Muhammadu Buhari, retd and face issue-based
campaigns if the PDP must win the polls.