The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday said the public pelting and jeering at President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC), during a campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State, was a direct response by Nigerians to his four-year misrule.
The opposition party said the incident was a revolt by the masses against “the expansion of poverty, corruption, divisiveness and bloodletting in our
nation.”
The APC rally in Abeokuta on Monday was marred by violence. President Buhari who was present escape being hit by stones as hoodlums pelted the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomole, with stones.
The president was saved by one of the security operatives who took the hit for him.
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Reacting, the PDP said it was “instructive to note that Mr. President was pelted in Abeokuta barely 24 hours after his Zamfara state rally on Sunday, where he attempted to incite Nigerians to join the APC in their planned resort to violence to derail the 2019 general election, having realized that they stand no chance of winning the election.”
A statement by the national publicity secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said, “The people of Ogun State, and indeed, the South West, have shown that they are in direct alignment with other states and geo-political zones
of our country in rejecting President Buhari and Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo, whose administration has foisted so much injustice and brought
unprecedented pain and anguish to Nigerians.
“Mr. President can now see that Nigerians cannot be bought with N10,000,
as he was made to believe by Prof. Osinbajo and members of the cabal in
his Presidency.
“After the unpalatable encounters in all his rallies, Mr. President needs
no further signal to show him that the people have completely rejected
him, despite his false performance indices. Nigerians are determined to
deal him a crushing defeat on February 16 by voting enmasse for the
people’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as the next President of our
country.”
The PDP therefore urged President Buhari and the APC to read the
handwriting on the wall and “get ready to accept his inevitable defeat so
that Nigerians can have a breath of fresh air under the leadership of
Atiku Abubakar, whose campaign has continued to receive rousing
reception in all parts of the country.”
