2019: Be ready to accept defeat, PDP tells Buhari, APC

*How many Nigerians want to return to dark era of official corruption, insecurity – Source

“The crocodile tears by PDP all the times therefore achieve nothing but shame and unpardonable disgrace, not to Nigeria as a nation but, to a group of politicians who are yet to come to term that it is practically impossible for any sane person under the firmament of any society to ever trust them with power again, after they had spent 16 years abusing powers through misappropriation – with disdain – of the nation’s economy thereby inflicting pains, huge employment deficit, total collapse of hitherto functional industries, collapsed governing system, damaged trades and commerce, hunger and, in addition, dangerous ethnic and religious divisions leading to killings without mercy of innocent masses of the Nigerian people by some other innocent Nigerians. They can’t come back.  Believe!” He said.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to keep faith in his undertaking to accept the outcome of the 2019 Presidential election.

The party in a statement issued on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan invites Nigerians and the international community to note that the pledge made by the Director-General of Buhari’s Campaign Organisation and Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to a delegation from the European Union (EU), should be kept now that “the tide is flowing against their candidate.”

The statement read: “The Buhari Campaign Organisation has seen the handwriting on the wall; that Nigerians across board have reached an irreversible consensus to end the Buhari administration and vote in our candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as their next President and that no amount of smear campaigns, intimidation and threats can shake their will or cow them from firmly defending their resolution after the elections.

“The Presidency and the All Progressives Congress, APC, are aware that they have failed Nigerians in every way. They know that Nigerians have seen through their unending lies, deception, propaganda and interminable penchant for beguilement, and that there is no way they can resist the resolve of the people for a new beginning.

“This is a government that has gone down in history as irredeemably incompetent, blatantly corrupt, overtly insensitive, incurably vengeful and under which Nigerians are facing the worst form of economic hardship, hunger, starvation, social instability and unabated bloodletting, to the extent compatriots are resorting to slavery and suicide missions as options.”

A source in Abuja, who spoke under condition of anonymity in reaction to the PDP’s call, said however that it is only under an insane society that people, who know how a set of politicians plunged them into abject poverty, dilapidated economy with huge infrastructure deficits, would now want to, in spite of everything, go back to the dark era of official corruption, insecurity and impunity where division along ethnic and religious lines as order of the day.

He said, “One thing that PDP must not always do is this idea of rubbing their childishness on the serious entity that the International Communities represents while they play their politics of ‘talk first before thinking’.  They must know that the International Communities have their own issues and would only take Nigeria serious if it is able to also face its own challenges from within itself.

“The crocodile tears by PDP all the times therefore achieve nothing but shame and unpardonable disgrace, not to Nigeria as a nation but, to a group of politicians who are yet to come to term that it is practically impossible for any sane person under the firmament of any society to ever trust them with power again, after they had spent 16 years abusing powers through misappropriation – with disdain – of the nation’s economy thereby inflicting pains, huge employment deficit, total collapse of hitherto functional industries, collapsed governing system, damaged trades and commerce, hunger and, in addition, dangerous ethnic and religious divisions leading to killings without mercy of innocent masses of the Nigerian people by some other innocent Nigerians. They can’t come back.  Believe!” He said.