Don’t descend into the gutter with Saraki, Presidency tells Buhari supporters

The Presidency on Thursday called on supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari to perish the temptation of descending into using uncouth language with Senate President Bukola Saraki.

Appealing to the president’s supporters to ignore what it called crude speeches coming from Saraki, the presidency, in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, urged them to conduct themselves and put across their points of view in decent language.
Aside saying that a cabal and not Buhari has been running Nigeria, Saraki had on Thursday also said that Buhari lacked vision and capacity to develop Nigeria.

Saraki had said when he led his Presidential campaign team on a courtesy visit to Governor Seriake Dickson at Government House, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, that “There is a new order in the world today, wherever we go, we see leaders that have a vision, that are ready to develop their countries. A lot of us talked about the Asian tigers, but they did not come by chance, or trial and error, they became tigers because they have visionary leaders. They are leaders that are ready to defend their countries, that have an idea of what they want to do. As I keep on saying, you cannot give what you don’t have.

But in it’s reaction, the presidency said it “wishes to react the crude speeches hitting the news from Senator Bukola Saraki who recently joined the Peoples Democratic Party with the sole ambition of running as the president of Nigeria.

“In response the condemnable and extremely derogatory speeches by the PDP aspirant, we urge all Buhari supporters to display restraint in language and conduct and to always put across their points of view in a decent language.

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“Throughout his political career, Senator Saraki has shown that he is a very dangerous person who can go any length to promote his personal interests.

“The language of his campaign is such that cannot be used against a domestic help.

“Is he just knowing that the President lacked vision? This is someone that the Senator had worked with very closely for more than three years. Amazingly, he never said all that he is now saying against him.

“Rather, his word for and on the President were always respectful and reassuring. That’s the man he called “My Father,” about him “there is no cause for alarm…a President who is healthy, witty and himself.” What then changed, all of a sudden?

“Is he saying these blatantly false and crude things against the President because he is gunning for the same office? Could it be that he is targeting President Buhari because the party he just joined does not have any real issues to highlight?

“Be that as it may, our appeal to our supporters is to ignore Saraki and any such politicians bent on lowering the quality of political discourse. Let them drown in their own waters.”

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