The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organization, PPCO, has said the large turnout of supporters at its presidential rally in Kano on Sunday, was an indication that President Muhammadu Buhari has lost the support of the North West.
The Presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, was in Kano on Sunday in continuation of his nationwide campaign rally.
A statement by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary And Director, Media & Publicity PDP Presidential Campaign Organization said the mammoth crowd that embraced Atiku in Kano had finally awakened Buhari to the stark reality that he has lost it all in Kano state.
He said, “The spontaneous jubilation by Nigerians across the entire Kano state, in receiving Atiku Abubakar, reinforces their rejection of President Buhari for impoverishing the people with his incompetence as well as endorsing corruption in the state.
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“The people of Kano state are in alignment with other states of the federation, particularly in the north, in rejecting President Buhari for his manifest aloofness and insensitivity to the welfare of the poor, while his close relations and cabal at his Presidency live in arrogant opulence.”
Ologbondiyan noted that Buhari’s rejection was equally a statement by the people of Kano State, that his public approval of the corruption activities of Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, who was recently exposed in series of videos allegedly collecting bribe in foreign currency from contractors, was unacceptable.
He said further, “that President Buhari could publicly raise the hand of Governor Ganduje at a recent rally was an unpardonable affront to the people of Kano, who have a long history of standing against corruption.”
The PDP Publicity Director maintained that the “complete rejection of President Buhari in the face of the soaring acceptance of Atiku Abubakar across the country, particularly in the North West states of Kano, Sokoto, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kebbi, Zamfara and Katsina, which were hitherto considered as President Buhari’s stronghold, has clearly displayed that President Buhari and his dysfunctional All Progressives Congress, APC, have come to the end of the road.”v
