Only eight days before the presidential election is held across Nigeria, the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Smart Adeyemi, has explained two fundamental errors that could cause the APC’s presidential candidate, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, to lose the March 28 election.
Speaking during an interview conducted by Daily Trust in Abuja, Senator Adeyemi, said the opposition party had made a mistake by making Buhari, who he described as an old man, its presidential candidate despite the series of controversies around him.
The senator said: “The APC made a grievous mistake by picking Buhari as its presidential candidate and they capped that up by bringing Professor Yemi Osinbajo. They are pairing a man of God with a dictator.
“By foisting Buhari on Nigerians, a man who ordinarily should be asking for forgiveness over controversies surrounding his past misdeeds and doing restitution in his old age, the APC has wronged Nigerians. This is a man who is not even in tune with economic realities.”
Senator Adeyemi said the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would roundly defeat the APC in the general election, adding that Buhari’s running mate should be prepared to do restitution before returning to the altar.
This preceded a statement by the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, that President Jonathan will be re-elected come May 29 but that there was no way his party will get a landslide victory in the forthcoming general elections.
Mu’azu, a former governor of Bauchi state, made the remark in an unusual statement he signed in Abuja on Thursday to try to shore up the party’s dwindling fortunes and revamp his relationship with the president.
Meanwhile, the Independent Democrats and United Progressives Party (UPP) have denied pledging support for the APC ahead of next week’s polls.
This is contrary to reports that a total of 12 opposition parties reportedly pledged allegiance to the APC to enable it win the election.
The parties were the African Peoples Alliance, the Kowa Party, the Social Democratic Party, the African Democratic Congress, the Hope Democratic Party, the Democratic People’s Party and the United Peoples Party.
Others are the Accord Party, Independent Democrats, the Unity Party of Nigeria, the Action Alliance and the Peoples Democratic Movement.
However, in a statement by its national director of operations on Thursday, Independent Democrats protested its inclusion in the list of the parties, stating that it had since adopted President Goodluck Jonathan, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the presidential election, as its candidate.
The senator said: “The APC made a grievous mistake by picking Buhari as its presidential candidate and they capped that up by bringing Professor Yemi Osinbajo. They are pairing a man of God with a dictator.
“By foisting Buhari on Nigerians, a man who ordinarily should be asking for forgiveness over controversies surrounding his past misdeeds and doing restitution in his old age, the APC has wronged Nigerians. This is a man who is not even in tune with economic realities.”
Senator Adeyemi said the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would roundly defeat the APC in the general election, adding that Buhari’s running mate should be prepared to do restitution before returning to the altar.
This preceded a statement by the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, that President Jonathan will be re-elected come May 29 but that there was no way his party will get a landslide victory in the forthcoming general elections.
Mu’azu, a former governor of Bauchi state, made the remark in an unusual statement he signed in Abuja on Thursday to try to shore up the party’s dwindling fortunes and revamp his relationship with the president.
Meanwhile, the Independent Democrats and United Progressives Party (UPP) have denied pledging support for the APC ahead of next week’s polls.
This is contrary to reports that a total of 12 opposition parties reportedly pledged allegiance to the APC to enable it win the election.
The parties were the African Peoples Alliance, the Kowa Party, the Social Democratic Party, the African Democratic Congress, the Hope Democratic Party, the Democratic People’s Party and the United Peoples Party.
Others are the Accord Party, Independent Democrats, the Unity Party of Nigeria, the Action Alliance and the Peoples Democratic Movement.
However, in a statement by its national director of operations on Thursday, Independent Democrats protested its inclusion in the list of the parties, stating that it had since adopted President Goodluck Jonathan, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the presidential election, as its candidate.
