The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday said with the “emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari, who has become grossly unpopular among Nigerians, as sole Presidential candidate,” the All Progressives Congress (APC) “is now irredeemably doomed for a crushing defeat in the 2019 general elections.”


PDP 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.”

A statement by PDP’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan said, “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 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 Mr. 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 elections where millions of Nigerians, who are suffering untold hardship because of his misrule are only waiting to deal him a blow with their votes?

“Owing to Buhari’s incompetence, Nigerians’ purchasing power has 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 this administration has no economic blueprint except borrowing.


“Since President Buhari’s declaration to contest the 2019 election, true democrats and other well-meaning citizens have 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.

“Moreover, while it is settled that President Buhari is no match to any of our presidential aspirants, all indices points 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 our nation to the path of unity, peace, good governance and economic prosperity for our people.”
sourse:http://www.olanaija.com.ng/2018/09/buharis-emergence-as-sole-presidential.html

Nobody was prevented from obtaining APC presidential nomination form. Any serious APC presidential aspirant should have obtained the nomination form by now. So, the narrative that the president fears a competitive primary makes no sense. It's even more silly that this kind of rubbish is coming from PDP that printed only one presidential nomination form back in 2015. Jonathan clearly told all possible presidential aspirants then to go to hell. PDP's kind of impunity doesn't exist in APC.

the foolish party has spoken again.

& what is your business?


PDP should focus on putting its house in order rather than poke nosing in the legitimate affairs of APC...

seunmsg:
Nobody was prevented from obtaining APC presidential nomination form. Any serious APC presidential aspirant should have obtained the nomination form by now. So, the narrative that the president fears a competitive primary makes no sense. It's even more silly that this kind of rubbish is coming from PDP that printed only one presidential nomination form back in 2015. Jonathan clearly told all possible presidential aspirants then to go to hell. PDP's kind of impunity doesn't exist in APC.

pdp is in an advantage position to conduct a more robust democratic exercise that will see all the presidential candidates going all out to garner supporters for the party using all political means and if the process is transparent enough every other candidate will rally behind the winner .

the lack of internal democracy in APC is very clear for all to see ,even tinubu couldn't hide the fact that he was supporting buhari for president because of his 2023 ambition despite acknowledging the fact that buhari has failed woefully.
With that type of Statement no presidential hopeful would have remained in apc .

Pdp is jittery already. No other person is contesting with Buhari in the APC because it will be a waste of money.
It shows Buhari is overwhelminly popular and hence, unbeatable.

Jittery statement!

magoo10:
pdp is in an advantage position to conduct a more robust democratic exercise that will see all the presidential candidates going all out to garner supporters for the party using all political means and if the process is transparent enough every other candidate will rally behind the winner .

the lack of internal democracy in APC is very clear for all to see ,even tinubu couldn't hide the fact that he was supporting buhari for president because of his 2023 ambition despite acknowledging the fact that buhari has failed woefully.
With that type of Statement no presidential hopeful would have remained in apc .

And what is wrong in Tinubu aspiring to be the president？

godox2:


And what is wrong in Tinubu aspiring to be the president？

nothing actually but everything is wrong when he intentionally supports a dullard who is intellectually bereft just because he has an ambition.

magoo10:
nothing actually but everything is wrong when he intentionally supports a dullard who is intellectually bereft just because he has an ambition.

Thats why they said, politics is a game of intrest.

magoo10:
pdp is in an advantage position to conduct a more robust democratic exercise that will see all the presidential candidates going all out to garner supporters for the party using all political means and if the process is transparent enough every other candidate will rally behind the winner .

the lack of internal democracy in APC is very clear for all to see ,even tinubu couldn't hide the fact that he was supporting buhari for president because of his 2023 ambition despite acknowledging the fact that buhari has failed woefully.
With that type of Statement no presidential hopeful would have remained in apc .

since the likes of Wike is openly supporting Tambuwal, should we then say the others should quit? Dino is supporting Saraki, SE governors are supporting Atiku, we should as well stop the primaries now! Tinubu is not a governor, a government official or a member of the APC NWC, so why can't he support whoever if he so wish. It is called freedom of choice.