A Coalition of Aggrieved supporters of presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has formally declared support for President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing the PDP candidate of using and dumping them.
The coalition of 145 political groups has been formally received by leader of the APC Youth Presidential Campaign Group, Brigadier General Muhammad Buba Marwa, who charged the new members to be fully integrated into the existing Buhari’s campaign group without feeling different.
General Marwa said they should leverage on achievements of President Buhari in carrying out their campaign for him along with their already working APC supporters.
Leader of the coalition, Comrade Bello Osaretin Godspower, said the former Vice President never appreciated their efforts and treated them with disdain.
He added that aside the ill treatment, the Atiku Campaign has been infiltrated by people with questionable character and who were once responsible for the rape of nation’s democracy.
He denied reports making the round that they have decided to return to the Atiku Campaign, describing the information as cheap promotional gimmick to score undeserving political goal.
He said: “It will be recalled that on the 27th of November, 2018 at a location in the heart of Abuja, we the disgruntled members of Atiku Campaign Office took a mile stone decision to dump Atiku Abubakar Presidential Project on the platform of PDP after a robust and convincing consultation with relevant stakeholders vis-a-viz other considerable factors.
“Our despondency was born out of Atiku Abubakar disdainful treatment of support groups, which snow-ball into neglect, nepotic deployment, use and dump style coupled with lack of direction and reward management system made worse by the infusion and infiltration of people with questionable characters into his campaign train, who were once responsible for the rape on the Nigeria state and were also found culpable for the culture of gross impunity and social recklessness in the society.
“Today, the 10th of February, 2019, we as members of Aggrieved Atiku Support Group Coalition warehousing over one hundred and forty-five formidable organizations united together and stronger in one voice to officially denounce Atiku Abubakar Presidential ambition and make formal declaration to support President Mohammadu Buhari Re-election bid come February 16, 2019.
“Permit me to use this opportunity to refute and debunk the claims in some quarters that the Aggrieved Atiku Support Groups led by Comrade Bello Osaretin Godspower (El Mikado) has returned to Atiku Abubakar, a decoy to confuse the unsuspecting electorates whose opinions are already to vote for President Mohammadu Buhari re-election bid.
“We frown at the cheap promotional gimmicks to score undeserving political goal. It is incomprehensible to believe and one of the numerous PDP propaganda tactics to fool and hoodwink the general public. However, we cannot kowtow to return to Egypt and it is a sin for one to contemplate PDP that has been corruptibly battered, tattered and tattooed. PDP is like a bogeyman with the garment of errors, horrors and terrors.
“Our decision to formally declare support for President Muhammadu Buhari Re-election is in the national interest and his ability to rejig the governance system that hitherto occasioned with corruption activities under the sixteen years misrule of PDP government, where corruption became the norms and symbols of state (stealing was never corruption).
“It is instructive to assert or pontificate that the fight against corruption that has been identified as major problem of previous government are being well fought under President Muhammadu Buhari with global acknowledgement.
“We are glad to appreciate the good work of Mr. President and today, the roads are working, the rails are back on track, the agricultural sector which is the instrument of diversification is on course and the farmers can now smile to the banks, the social intervention policy i.e the N-Power Programme, the School Feeding Programme and the Trader Money Programme are well implemented with due diligence coupled with uncountable infrastructural development that are scattered across the country, especially in the power sector.
“We cannot afford to stand akimbo and aloof in the political space to allow rascals, hooligans and economic thieves who are professionally hollow, delinquent in leadership panache, nomadic in character and content to hold sway in the governance of Nigeria once again.
