PDP: Buhari, APC jittery over our candidate’s acceptance

THE People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the spontaneous and overwhelming acceptance accorded its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the Southeast is a manifestation of the trajectory that awaits him in all the geo-political zones across the country.

The opposition party said the acceptance demonstrated the settled resolve of Nigerians across board to vote out the President Muhammadu Buhari administration because of what it described as its manifest failures in governance.

A statement yesterday by PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the PDP was aware of how the acceptance of its candidate has sent jitters to the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari.

He added that the acceptance of Atiku belied claims that the President and the APC were making inroads into the Southeast.

The statement said: “With the assemblage of all leaders of note in every sector from all the five states of the Southeast receiving our candidate, it is settled that President Buhari and the APC do not have any support in the zone.

“This acceptance could not have been less significant because the Buhari-led APC administration has no achievement, of any sort, in the entire zone.

“The PDP commends the people of the Southeast and Nigerians in general for their courage in collectively resolving to rally with Atiku and our other candidates to rescue our nation from shackles of the Buhari administration and return her to the path of good governance, national cohesion and economic prosperity.”