The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told President Muhammadu Buhari
not to waste his energy on any cosmetic campaign for collection of
Permanent Voter Card (PVC) as the failure of his administration has
provided enough stimuli for Nigerians to fully participate in the 2019
election.
The party said President Buhari, by now, ought to have known that such
theatrics, simulated by his handlers, cannot help his self-destroyed
public image or reverse the determination of Nigerians to vote him out
in 2019.
This is a leader who declared interest to contest, months ago, without
talking about PVCs or engaging in any form of voter education, only for
him to suddenly wake up to the reality of the mass wave of PVC
collection by Nigerians, which signposts the inevitable electoral
humiliation that awaits him and his party in 2019.
The sad issue is that President Buhari has refused to come to terms with
the fact that Nigerians have since moved ahead of him. He does not need
to urge them to get their PVCs. They have had enough of his
administration with its associated economic hardship, nepotism,
bloodletting, violence and killings, and are therefore eagerly
collecting the cards with the singular aim of voting him out of office.
In fact, it appears that Mr. President just started hearing the drumbeat
by Nigerians, expressing their dissatisfaction with his incompetence, as
well as the corruption and insensitivity of his leadership to their
plight as citizens.
The shock that awaits Mr. President will be an inescapable mortifying
electoral loss in places he currently boasts of as his political
stronghold as even the people around him today have since deserted him
within and only waiting for 2019 to free themselves from the
stranglehold of his misrule.
Mr. President should therefore prepare to accept defeat and to quit the
stage for a new President, under the platform of the repositioned PDP,
to bring unity, peace and economic prosperity to our nation.