The Presidential Candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to claims by
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo that there was a gang-up by the elites to
discredit President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2019 elections.
He insisted that there was no
gang-up against the President anywhere but that his (Buhari’s) inability to
maintain the team that brought him to power in 2015 was his major problem going
into the next general elections.
Osita Chidoka, spokesman of the
PDP presidential campaign council, made this known yesterday when he appeared
on Channels TV’s Politics Today.
He said the fact that hundreds of
aides and supporters to several APC governors were leaving the ruling party on
the eve of the 2019 polls showed that President Buhari’s main problem was
rooted in his own failures to unite and hold his party men together and not on
any gang-up as alleged by the VP.
His words: “There’s no gang-up
against President Buhari. What has happened is that the President has destroyed
the coalition that brought him to power.
“The APC is a very divisive party
and because of the divisiveness anchored on gross incompetence, the winning
coalition that brought him (Buhari) to power could not be maintained. The
coalition has fallen apart.
“Is it gang-up that APC members
in Imo state have decamped to another party? Is it gang-up by anybody that
Zamfara state APC members have moved to another party? In Ogun state, the
members (of APC) and aides of the governor have moved to another party.
“APC was a special purpose
vehicle designed to wrestle power out of the PDP. That goal was achieved but he
(Buhari) was incapable of transforming the special purpose vehicle into a
governing coalition.
“What is happening is not a
gang-up. It is the outcome of incapacity and inability to build a governing
coalition and that is majorly the reason the country is suffering.”
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