The All
Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed recent reports alleged to be peddled
by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) that its presidential candidate, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd), will spend only one term in office if elected
President, saying it is the creation of the PDP which is seeking to play a
section of the country against another.
Speaking
through a press statement issued in Lagos and signed by its National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Tuesday, the party said that “The APC will
not abridge the right of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to spend the
constitutionally-guaranteed two terms as President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria if elected in the March 28th poll.” “No conditionality whatsoever was
attached to Gen. Buhari’s candidacy.
He won the party primaries fair and square in
a globally-acclaimed transparent manner, and he was neither a compromise nor a
consensus candidate, hence there is no need for him to make a deal with anyone.
“We are therefore telling Nigerians to
disregard the tales by the moonlight which some PDP elements are yarning, in
their desperation to muddle the waters ahead of the forthcoming elections and
create disaffection between a section of the country and another,” it said. APC
said it had ignored the myth all long because it was being peddled by fringe
elements in the PDP, but decided to put the record straight once and for all
after those who were thought to be saner elements in the ruling party started
parroting the same incredulous lies.
“This myth that Buhari will spend one term,
after which power will return to the South-west, is along the same line as the
outlandish claim that our Vice Presidential Candidate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has
sworn to an oath to resign in favour of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu once elected.
“The question to ask is:
When will
the PDP stop this campaign of calumny and character assassination against our
candidates and leaders? When will they stop this one-day, one-lie nonsense?
“The truth is that Gen. Buhari’s candidacy has brought out the worst in the PDP
leadership and supporters, including Mr. President and his wife. Unfortunately
for them, the more they campaign against our candidate, the more popular he
becomes.
Perhaps
the PDP would have stood a better chance of winning the forthcoming polls if
its State Governors, in particular, have devoted as much time and energy to
running their states as they have devoted to maligning Gen. Buhari,” the party
said.
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