PDP mocks Buhari over fresh slips during campaigns in Ekiti, Ondo

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has described as a national disgrace and embarrassment, President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged statement that he assumed office in 2005.

Buhari was also said to have committed another slip in Ondo, referring to ‘Ondo Central as Edo Central.

Buhari was sworn in on May 29, 2015 after he defeated Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP and others at the poll.

The fresh slip from Nigeria’s President happened on Tuesday during the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential election campaigns in the two neighbouring states.

Recall that Buhari had at APC rally in Delta referred the party’s gubernatorial candidate as ‘presidential,’ ‘senatorial’ and ‘governortorial’ candidate.

Frowning at the latest slip, Ekiti PDP argued that “those still at the forefront of Buhari’s reelection despite his clear demonstration of lack of intellectual capacity are nothing but enemies of Nigeria and its people.”

In a statement on Tuesday, director of media and publicity of the Atiku/Obi PDP Presidential Campaign Council in Ekiti State, Lere Olayinka, said Nigerians should ask leaders of the APC how “a man who can no longer remember when he assumed office should continue to be in control of the existence of over 200 million Nigerians.

“The President had said in Ado Ekiti today (Tuesday) that, ‘I assure you that we are conscious of the promise we made, when we came into office in 2005.’

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“Those still supporting President Buhari will never pray that God should give their children his kind of brain”, reiterating that “the only reason the cabal running the country want him (Buhari) to remain in office is to guarantee their 2023 presidential ambition and access to the national treasury,” Olayinka said.

He added, “Nigerians must not allow the cabal to impose calamity on the country for another four years.

“If he (Buhari) cannot remember when he assumed office, can he remember his responsibilities as a President? Can he remember the insecurity in the Northeast and other parts of the country? Can he remember that a bag of rice that he met at N7,000 is now N21,000?”

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