Plateau standstill for Buhari shows who wins, not missed debate – Nigerians
To them, including the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who have accused President Muhammadu Buhari of not attending Saturday Presidential debate, the massive crowd that welcomed the President to Jos, Plateau State earlier in the day certainly showed who was winning the debate.
These were the words that have pervaded the political airspace since the President returned from the unprecedentedly, massively crowded presidential campaign ground in the Plateau State capital on Saturday 19 January 2019.
Nigerians, reacting to Atiku’s excuse of storming out of the debate venue because he did not see President Muhammadu Buhari, told The DEFENDER that the PDP presidential candidate has no message.
Some of them particularly said that the former vice president was clearly being haunted by his “disgraceful” outing in the United States where he had allowed himself to be “smuggled” into a country where he was being hunted for arrest on corruption indictment as “aide” hiding behind legislative diplomatic immunity of Senate President Bukola Saraki.
One of them who spoke from America early Sunday to The DEFENDER, Abass Adetunji, said: “Atiku and Saraki’s desperations are one particular reason we Nigerians in the Diaspora would not love to root for Diaspora voting system at this time. They can hack into the system and fraudulently favour themselves with voting number. But I am happy that his trip here failed the way it did”.
In their assessment of the Jos campaign fashion, Presidential aides said they had never seen the kind of rapturous crowd before.
In a text message to The DEFENDER early Sunday morning, Mr. Femi Adesina, President Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, said, “Never seen anything like what we saw in Jos before. It was massive.”
A social media aide of the President, Bashir Ahmad, said via his Twitter handle: “Such love, this is Jos, Plateau for PMB.”
