PDP reacts as Governors from Niger Republic attend Buhari’s Kano rally
The Peoples Democratic Party has condemned President Muhammadu Buharii and the All Progressives Congress over the presence of two governors from Niger Republic at the presidential rally of the APC in Kano.
Governor Issa Moussa of Zinder and Governor Zakiri Umar of Maradi State from the Republic of Niger were on Thursday in Kano to rally support for President Muhammadu Buharii’s re-election.
This was disclosed on Twitter by Salihu Yakasai, media aide to Kano State Governor, Umar Ganduje, with a photo of the governors and Ganduje.
Yakasai said, “H.E @GovUmarGanduje with his deputy H.E Dr Nasiru Gawuna, his former Dep H.E Prof Hafiz Abubakar, Minister of Interior Abdurrahman Dambazau and that of Water Resources, Suleiman Kazaure, Governors of Zinder and Maradi from Niger Republic, & others getting ready to receive @MBuhari #PMBinKano.”
Yakasai added that the two Nigerien governors were in Kano to rally support for the President Buhari’s re-election.
Reacting to this development, the PDP accused Buhari of mortgaging the future of Nigeria, alleging that the President and his party, the APC, would also import voters from neighbouring countries for the February 16 Presidential election.
Speaking with The Punch, the National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, called the attention of the international community to the alleged plan by the ruling party.
He said that elections were internal affairs of Nigerians, wondering why the two foreign governors would be in Kano to welcome the President to his own country.
He said the presence of the two foreign governors had also vindicated the PDP’s claim that President Buhari and his party had been importing foreigners to attend the APC rallies.
Secondus said, “We have been saying it that the President does not consider the interest of Nigerians first in any of his actions. The President of Nigeria has sold the country to those who he loves more than the people who own the nation.
“The presence of the two foreign governors is significant in many ways. One, it shows that the President and the APC, like we said, have been importing foreign leaders to the country to attend their rallies.
“We have been saying this and I’m happy for Nigerians now that God has exposed them. Their evil plot has come to the open.
“You know that even in almost all the states where the President and his party have become unpopular, they keep on boasting that they will win with a landslide victory. One of the ways they planned to get the votes is the illegal importation of foreign voters, who are also underage.
“We want to call the attention of Nigerians to this assault on our sovereignty. We want the foreign and developed democracies to take note of this action and hold the President responsible if there is crisis before, during and after the elections.
“It is sad that the minister in charge of internal security of the nation was present. We know that they are planning negative things ahead of the elections. We just want to warn them not to plunge the country into crisis.”
Secondus added that the President had also demonstrated why his government had been treating the killer herdsmen with kid gloves. (Vanguard)
