DON'T LET BUHARI DECEIVE YOU ATIKU TELLS SOUTH WEST

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has called on people from the South-East and South-West zones in Nigeria not to be deceived by President Buhari’s promises.

This was made known in a statement signed by the spokesman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Kassim Afegbua.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at a rally recently, told leaders of the South-West that voting for Buhari will ensure that the region gets the presidency in 2023.

Also, Vanguard reports that the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, while speaking at Owerri recently, said Buhari will hand over to a South-Easterner in 2023.

In his reaction, Atiku accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of trading the presidency so as to hold on to power.

He said “In its desperation to hang on to power despite its abysmal failure so far, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Presidency, have resorted to trading with the lure of 2023 presidency, promising both the South East and South West respectively of the 2023 Presidency in exchange for votes.

“Giving out two promises has exposed the insincerity and dubious intention of the Buhari-led federal government with the people of the South-East and South-West geopolitical zones with empty promises of bequeathing power to the two zones at the same time in 2023.

This is why Nigerians cannot take the APC and the Buhari presidency serious any longer, as we prepare for the 2019 election.”

Adding that “two principal officers of the same government cannot be fooling Nigerians with vainglorious promises all in the name of re-election. Such discordant tunes by the first and second citizens of our dear country have exposed lack of synergy and display of double standard and double-speak by chieftains of a government that has continued to display wanton desperation to hold on to power at all cost in the face of monumental failure.

“How can the President be promising South-Easterners the Presidency when his Vice President is also promising the South-Westerners same position in 2023, all in the name of 2019 re-election?

“This is a clear show of deceit, desperation, crass insincerity and hypocrisy of the highest order. This is a clarion call on the South-Easterners not to trust such carrot being dangled before them as it has become obvious that this government neither fulfills promises nor keeps any covenant.

“The same government cannot promise the Igbos and Yorubas at the same time if it were sincere about the shape of politics of 2023 Presidency. This government has an uncommon reputation for deceit, lies, insincerity, and hypocrisy especially when it has to do with its 2019 re-election bid.

“Nigerians are beginning to see through the pretensions and dubiety of purpose of the Buhari-led federal government; a government that has shown its incapacitation and leadership atrophy in the last three years and crippled the fabric of our collegiate solidarity and unity through nepotism and cronyism.

“The President cannot, on the one hand, be playing God by decreeing which zone it intends to bequeath the reins of power, while his Vice President, on the other hand, is also promising his South-West zone of same position.

This is a typical feature of power hawkers, in their desperation to hoodwink buyers to patronize their morbid products.

“The Nigerian public must wake up to this double-speak and vote out this inconsistent government in 2019. It is a responsibility that every Nigerian must buy into in order to save the country from further maladies and misgovernance.”

Meanwhile, a youth group has promised to deliver 18 million votes for Atiku Abubakar because of his stand on restructuring.