By Daniel Kanu
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, on Thursday cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to desist from “destroying institutions of state just because they have been rejected by Nigerians and want to manipulate the electoral process.”
Secondus alleged that the ruling party and its leaders “in their desperation and confusion are destroying institutions like the police and the military by intervening on their day to day running including determining posting of officers.”
The PDP national chairman levelled the allegation while addressing a large crowd of party supporters that thronged the Katsina State sports stadium on Thursday to welcome the party’s presidential train on arrival to President Buhari’s home state.
The national chairman reiterated his earlier position that PDP and its supporters will not accept the result of election not derived from the votes of the Nigerian people.
He told the jubilant supporters who shouted Atiku! Atiku! that their large turn out showed clearly that their son, the President, failed them pointing out that hunger and poverty recognises nobody.
“What President Buhari and his party bequeathed the people of Katsina and Nigeria in the last three and half years is nothing but hunger and unemployment,” he said.
The national chairman also blasted the governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, for his reckless threat on foreign election observers reminding him that in 2015, he (el-Rufai) and other APC leaders visited US and Europe begging for observers to come only to be threatening them now just because his party was losing.
He said no amount of threat will deter observers and other critical players in global democracy from carrying out their responsibility to Nigeria and democracy
“They are threatening everybody including foreigners, they want to kill opposition leaders but they will never be able to kill the will of Nigerian people who have resolved to rescue their country from their hands.”
On his part, the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, assured the people of Katsina that his presidency will address the numerous challenges confronting the people which the APC administration had failed to address despite their promises.
The high points of the Katsina rally was the courtesy call on the Emir of Daura, Dr Umar Farouk, the home emirate of President Buhari, the Emir of Katsina, Kabiru Usman and the home of the Yar’Aduas where the presidential candidate met with their mother who prayed for him.
The PDP presidential train moves to the North Central state of Benue on Friday.
