2019: Buhari as APC candidate will return PDP to power –Party Chieftain

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and one of its presidential aspirants, Dr. SKC Ogbonnia has warned against the alleged plot by the party’s leadership to circumvent internal party democracy and anoint President Muhammadu Buhari as the party’s candidate for the 2019 presidential election.

He said that such attempt will end up bringing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) back to power “which is a recipe for national doom.”

Ogbonnia also described Buhari’s bid for a second term in office as being worse than the annulment of June 12, 1993 election, which was won by late Chief M.K.O Abiola.

He noted these in a statement he signed himself entitled “Buhari’s second term plot worse than truncation of June 12” and made available to newsmen on Wednesday.

He said, “The title of this statement is definitely strident. But the angst must not be misconstrued as a view that President Muhammadu Buhari is worse than the cabal that annulled June 12 or Mr. Sani Abacha who attempted to legitimise the national curse.

“None of that! In fact, I have remained overjoyed that God used the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Buhari to rescue Nigeria from the ruins under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“The seemingly venom has to do with the fact that, instead of emulating Nelson Mandela to quit the stage when the ovation still echoes, President Buhari appears to be imitating the likes of Robert Mugabe to cling on to power by hook or crook. In a nutshell, Buhari’s bid for a second term in office at this stage of national development portends long-term consequences worse than the annulment of June 12 election of 1993 won by M.K.O Abiola, an injustice the state under Buhari is trying so hard to atone for.

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“Here are why:

“My practical observations at the just concluded APC national convention are troubling. The most alarming is an emerging consensus from the event of a thickening plot to circumvent internal party democracy and anoint President Muhammadu Buhari as the party’s candidate for the 2019 presidential election. But such attempt will bring PDP back to power, which is a recipe for national doom.

“President Buhari and his handlers must understand that, by commission or omission, the ruling party effortlessly allowed the opposition to rupture the balloon of public trust initially inflated by a cocktail of change mantra and the myth of Buhari’s legendary pedigree.”

 

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