APC: Collect PDP’s money but vote for Buhari

The Rivers state chapter of the All progressives Congress (APC) has urged Nigerian electorate not to turn down financial inducement by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2015 presidential election.

But it said that after collecting money from the ruling party, members of the public should instead vote for Muhammadu Buhari, its own presidential candidate.

“We urge Nigerians that he [Jonathan] is giving money to, to collect the money, as it is their money that was misappropriated and looted, but vote him out for the collective greater future of our country,” it said in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Monday by Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, the Rivers state chairman of its party.

APC added that Buhari has all it takes to convincingly win the March 28 presidential election.

“Whatever doubt that might have existed in anybody’s mind about Buhari’s readiness to rescue Nigeria from the low depths to which it has been dragged by the fumbling President Goodluck Jonathan has surely been erased by the General’s acclaimed outing at the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Chatham House, London, on Thursday.

“Buhari’s speech was world-class, as readily testified to by the packed audience that included British politicians, diplomats, journalists and a wide cross-section of Nigerians. The event’s chairman, former British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Sir Richard Gozney, aptly captured the Buhari persona when he described him as ‘a man of modesty, unusual for a Nigerian politician, and having clarity of thought and speech’. The success of the well-celebrated event demonstrates the international acceptance of General Buhari as the next president of Nigeria.”

It expressed happiness that Buhari used the event to assure the world of his readiness to personally lead the war against Boko Haram and to fight corruption frontally when he assumes office as Nigeria’s new President on May 29.

It also congratulated Buhari on his brilliant Chatham House lecture, urging him “not to relent as we collectively work to rescue Nigeria and Nigerians from the hands of a confused, corrupt and misguided President Jonathan before he runs the country completely aground”.

“If he succeeds in restoring security to Nigeria and stop the corruption that is currently pulling down our economy under the corrupt regime of President Jonathan, APC may have succeeded in its rescue mission,” it said.

“We wish to reiterate that not minding the intimidation by the PDP leadership against us in Rivers State, we are set to ensure that General Buhari does not only win Rivers State but that all the APC candidates win all the available seats in Rivers State during the March and April general elections.”

The party urged Jonathan to “stop deceiving himself and his tattered PDP” that he would win re-election by his latest attempt to corrupt and buy over Nigerians, but to start preparing his handover notes as nothing will save him from the humiliation that awaits him on March 28 to prove to him that he is a total failure as president.

It warned President Jonathan and the PDP leadership to abandon the plot to ask the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to proceed on terminal leave anytime from now, saying: “President Jonathan should be man enough and prepare himself for his defeat and face the election without looking for any shortcut to stay a day longer as the President of Nigeria as Nigerians are fed up with his visionless administration.

“We commend Nigerian soldiers for steadily dislodging Boko Haram insurgents in the north-eastern part of the country, thus bringing back memories of the feats that made them the best army in Africa. If not for the poor leadership by the PDP regime, Boko Haram would have been history long before now.

“An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped. ‘BUHARISM’ is now a Phenomenon in Nigerian politics whose time has come, for which nobody can stop, notwithstanding the antics and the masqueraders in the presidency because whether they like it or not President Jonathan must relinquish power by May 29, 2015 by the votes of Nigerians, as we cannot allow him to run our country aground before he leaves.”