The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the counsel by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that President Muhammadu Buhari should not seek re-election in 2019 as courageous, timely and patriotic. It also said that the counsel has vindicated the PDP's position on President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The party however rejected the call by Chief Obasanjo for a third force, saying such would amount to repeating the same blunder that brought in the ideologically vacuous APC and the Buhari Presidency, which has now wreaked havoc on the nation in its almost three years of governance.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement, Tuesday, said the fact that President Buhari and the APC have irredeemably failed our nation is obvious to all, adding that Nigerians have already taken an irrevocable position against them ahead of the 2019 elections.
According to the PDP, Chief Obasanjo’s counsel has rekindled the fate of the people in the democratic process, stressing however that the solution does not lie in creating another political quicksand in a third force but by consolidating on a rescue mission with the re-positioned PDP, which Nigerians have already embraced.
The statement noted that Nigerians would recall that in the heat of the 2015 elections, many citizens, who claimed to have become tired of the PDP and its government, opted for a coalition of strange bedfellows, who had little or no experience in governance as a vehicle for electoral victory.
"Expectedly, in their confusion, they have plunged us into this regrettable situation that has brought our nation to its knees," the statement regretted.
PDP maintained that repeating the old mistake of congregating political strangers cannot help the nation at this time, more so, when the few concerns raised by the former president about the PDP no longer obtain under the refocused and re-branded PDP.
"The PDP is now standing on a truly democratic ground that perfectly represents and reflects the hopes and aspirations of all Nigerians, irrespective of their class, creed or tribe," the statement noted, adding, "That is why our great party has now, more than ever before, become a center of the new patriotic and broad-based engagements by well-meaning Nigerians and coalitions across board, including past leaders, in rekindling our democratic process that places priority on returning power to the people.
Nigerians, the statement maintained, overrated President Buhari in 2015, saying however that they have now seen that he (Buhari) never possessed the capacity and the required aptitude to effectively govern the great nation and pilot a healthy economy.
This, it argued, accounts for the reason former President Obasanjo, just like most Nigerians today, are concerned about the quality of presidential candidates to be presented by various parties for the 2019 election.
"The fact is that while the APC is already caught up with President Buhari, the PDP is open for a new engagement that will throw up the President, which the nation truly deserves at this crucial moment,"it stated.
The PDP therefore called on Nigerians, "including all the leaders across board, to come together to rebuild the nation on PDP’s consolidated base rather than traversing on another learning curve."
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