Nigerians have been warned to guide against the plans by APC to buy permanent voters cards from people, describing it as a way of perpetrating electoral fraud.
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar who stated this in Ilorin on Wednesday at the party’s campaign, lamented that the nation has gone worse under the APC; hence the need to provide an alternative administration that can make things work in the nation again.
Atiku said: “They promised us security, job and to improve the economy but in each of these they failed. It is time for our people to return
PDP to power, because Nigeria was good when PDP was in power.
“Today in terms of economy, Nigeria is the poorest in the world. These are facts from international organisations. The security situation has become terribly bad. We promise to lead Nigeria and return it to the path of glory and buoyant economy.
He therefore, enjoined Nigerians to vote right by allowing PDP to take over power come 2019 so as to make their future and that of their children better.
In his own speech, the PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus while appreciating the large turnout of the people for the rally, noted that Nigerians have been suffering since APC took over power in 2015.
He said: “Look at the genocide in Benue and Plateau states and no arrest was made. APC is a government of propaganda.
“INEC will only cause crisis in Nigeria if they attempted to rig the 2019 election. The election must be transparent. Nigeria will not allow election rigging again. Nigerians must be the soldiers and
policemen on duty in Election Day to protect their votes. We have the best candidate who will win.
“One of the APC strategies is to cause crisis and postpone election, so that they can rig as they did in Osun. We will not accept any election rigged or postponement.”
The Director General of the Atiku/Obi Campaign Organisation and President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki who said the APC-led government
has failed in all facets of governance.
Asking Nigerians to vote President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC out of power in next year’s general election, Saraki lamented that the APC
had failed to deliver on all its 2015 campaign promises.
Saraki said: “APC promised Nigeria a lot of things. They promised us security. Then we had security problem only in the North East but now it has extended to North Central and even the North West. APC has failed because security has worsened.
“People are dying of hunger because economy has gone terribly bad.
They have also failed in fighting corruption. The hunger is serious in the country today. Nigeria is today world’s poverty capital. We need a president that will fix the economy, create jobs and unite Nigerians.
“This APC government must go because events of the past three years had shown that they don’t have solutions to all these problems. We must vote this government out and elect Atiku as our next president. My people of Kwara and North central, we must vote out Buhari. Atiku is solution to Nigeria’s problem.”
He added that, “Atiku is a man no one can bribe. Buhari has brought doom to Nigeria and the only man that will bring peace to Nigeria is
Atiku. Atiku will bring food, security to Nigeria.
Similarly, the chairman of the organising committee for the rally who doubles as Kwara State PDP secretary, Rasaq Lawal thanked the people of the state for turning out in large number to honour their illustrious son, Bukola Saraki.
Describing the rally as a huge success, Lawal asked the people of the state to repeat the fit during the 2019 elections by voting massively for all the PDP’s candidates across board.
PDP flags were presented to the gubernatorial candidate of the party in Kwara, Razak Atunwa and his counterparts from the north
Central zone that were present at the rally.
The need to replace the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government as a means of ending the nation’s multifarious problems was the highlight of the north central zonal rally of the PDP presidential campaign in Ilorin, Kwara State.
SIKIRAT SHEHU, Ilorin
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