The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the declaration by former President Ibrahim Babangida that President Muhammadu Buhari should not seek a re-election in 2019 as apt and yet another pointer to the fact that Nigerians across divides have reached a consensus against President Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
This is just as the party commended the former military president for admonishing the APC’s attempt to use its “phony” restructuring agenda as a decoy for wooing voters ahead of 2019 election.
The party said General Babangida’s position on the need for a dynamic, nationalistic and development-driven leadership was a direct reflection of the feeling and aspirations of Nigerians.
It said it also completely captured the direction of the repositioned PDP for a better Nigeria.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Sunday, said the fact that General Babangida’s declaration on President Buhari was coming on the heels of similar declaration by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, had further vindicated PDP’s position on the misrule of the Buhari administration and the APC.
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The PDP further described as an understatement, General Babangida’s reflection that the Buhari administration and its APC had polluted the nation’s “leadership actuality.”
It added that it was not unmindful of the yearnings of Nigerians to use the platform of the repositioned PDP to propagate a new coalition that would return the much desired new atmosphere in the polity by producing the president that would be acceptable to the majority of Nigerians.
“It is now obvious to all that the time has come for all Nigerians to jettison all personal interests and divisive tendencies and rally forces under a truly national platform as now embodied in the PDP to rescue our dear nation from total collapse.
“In line with the new consensus for the election of a truly Nigerian President in 2019, the repositioned PDP is completely open as the epicenter of the much desired new broad-based political engagement of all Nigerians in their aspirations irrespective of creed, tribe or class.
“The repositioned PDP presents that credible platform, re-engineered with best democratic standards for unhindered accommodation of all interests from all parts of the country in our collective search for a new beginning,” the PDP stated.
It called on Nigerians, particularly leaders across board, to join forces with the PDP to once again return the nation to its pride of place as a thriving economy and a truly democratic nation come 2019.
