The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) again
has attacked the presidential candidate of
the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-
General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), with the
National Secretary of the PDP, Prof. Adewale
Oladipo, describing him as a semi-literate
jackboot.
This came as the war of words between the
PDP and the APC continued on Monday as
the PDP said no amount of blackmail and
wild allegations against President Goodluck
Jonathan can exonerate the APC of blame for
insurgency and the wave of violence ravaging
some northern states of the country.
Oladipo also said the 2015 presidential
election would be a straight battle between
“light and darkness,” stating that the APC is
not a political party that is really ready to
offer an alternative to the teeming masses of
the country.
Speaking yesterday during an interactive
session with officials of the PDP foreign
chapters, Oladipo said: “In preparing for the
next election which will not be like previous
elections because for the first time, the
opposition has coupled together a
contraction that is called the APC. They have
passed through a motion and endorsed their
perennial candidate, we have beaten him
three times and we are going to beat him
once again.
“The next election is going to be between
darkness and light, it is going to be between
a cosmopolitan highly focused PhD holder
and a semi-literate jackboot,” in an apparent
reference to Buhari.
The PDP national secretary described the
APC as a political party without focus and
agenda for Nigeria, saying: “The only agenda
they seem to have is to see our back but I
know that God loves this country so much.
God has decided that this country will remain
indivisible and has decided that this country
will continue to wax stronger. This country
will not go back to 1983 where we will start
doing trade by barter with Brazil.
“God has decreed it that we will continue to
pilot the affairs of this country and continue
to implement the transformation agenda.”
The PDP scribe further lashed out at the APC,
describing it as a religious and ethnic-based
party, saying: “Our party does not belong to
any religious organisation or ethnic group.”
While charging the representatives of various
chapters, Oladipo said: “You will be called
upon to enlighten Nigerians on the
programmes of the PDP wherever you reside
in the world.
“You will also be called upon to counter
negative propaganda that the APC is making
against our party and our country in different
countries of this world.
“Of course, we are not perfect but our
mission is perfect. We mean well for this
country and we believe the country should
continue to be one and that we should be a
market-driven economy while at the same
time, providing succour for the weak.”
He informed the members of the PDP foreign
chapters that the party has set up a National
Campaign Council headed by the National
Chairman of the party, Adamu Mu’azu and
that Dr. Ahmadu Ali, a former national
chairman is the Director General of the
campaign.
Speaking on the agenda of the PDP-led
government, he said: “We have a role to play
in reaching the world today. It is no longer
paper posters alone, we need virtual posters
to reach people. Of course the APC is there
propagating rubbish about our country and
advertising everything that is negative about
our country, ignoring all the positive aspects
of our nation, we are going to call on you to
counter this.”
On who is the governorship candidate of PDP
in Ogun State, the PDP national secretary
said: “INEC has set December 26 as the
deadline for submitting the list of candidate
for governorship and House of Assembly
members. Our party will beat that deadline
and as for Anambra State, we organised
primaries and the names of those who won
have been sent to INEC.”
Meanwhile, the PDP National Publicity
Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a statement
yesterday said the memories of Nigerians are
not short on the body language and inciting
utterances of the APC leaders, including their
presidential candidate, Buhari, which have
served as fuel to the raging flame of
terrorism.
According to the PDP, by going to the
international media recently to distance
themselves from complicity and in turning
round to blame Nigerians to suddenly grow
forgetful of the barrage of statements by
their leaders that promoted insurgency in the
country.
The party observed that whereas a
statesmanly statement from a person of
Buhari’s age and status could have helped
douse the tension in the land, the APC
presidential candidate chose incendiary
remarks, which emboldened insurgents,
apparently in keeping with the agenda of his
party to achieve political control through
violence.
The PDP compared the attitude of APC
leaders on insurgency to the metaphor of a
young man sent on a criminal mission by his
father, whose boldness knows no bounds.
“Nigerians have not forgotten the
spontaneous violence and mayhem on
innocent citizens following inciting
statements by Buhari and other APC leaders
then in the defunct CPC, upon losing the
2011 presidential election.
“The APC leaders have so far left no Nigerian
in doubt of their party’s violent disposition as
Buhari in May 2012, remorselessly stated
that ‘the monkey and baboon will be soaked
in blood’ should he lose the 2015 presidential
election.
“Attesting that penchant for violence flows in
the portal vein of the rank and file of the
APC, Buhari’s ‘Man-Friday’ and former
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory
(FCT),
Malam Nasir El-Rufai, in his capacity then as
APC Deputy National Secretary, in January
2014, told the whole world that ‘the next
election is likely to be violent and many
people are likely going to die. And the only
alternative left to get power is to take it by
force; this is the reality on ground.’
“Nigerians have also read and heard other
ricocheting calls for violence and threats of
parallel government from other leaders of this
same party. These are not just mere slips but
incontrovertible snips from the agenda of the
APC to sustain insurgency and set the stage
for carnage after they lose in the 2015
general elections.
“We find it funny that the APC which has
presented its standard bearer, Buhari, as a
macho mascot that will bring insurgency to
an end in matter of weeks using sheer force,
is turning round to play the card of dialogue
just to disparage the president.
“Ironically, for over a year of General Buhari’s
draconian rule in the 1980s and even now in
pretended love for democracy, the General is
never known to be amenable to any form of
dialogue. So, where will this hyped Midas
touch on dialogue come from?
“Well-meaning Nigerians appreciate the way
and manner the Jonathan
administration is confronting insurgency
using dialogue and military option. Twice,
the Council of State has appraised and
endorsed this approach despite spirited
efforts by the opposition to distract the
president and demoralise our security forces,”
the PDP said.
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