{"id":61557,"date":"2018-04-09T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T07:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=61557"},"modified":"2018-04-09T08:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T07:22:24","slug":"arewa-pastors-pdp-lampoons-apc-presidency-over-procured-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/arewa-pastors-pdp-lampoons-apc-presidency-over-procured-endorsements\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cArewa Pastors\u201d: PDP Lampoons APC, Presidency over Procured Endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the recent<br \/>\nstage-managed political endorsement by the All Progressives Congress<br \/>\n(APC) and the Buhari Presidency, by procuring individuals who<br \/>\nmasqueraded as religious leaders, as hypocritical and disgusting signs<br \/>\nof desperation.<\/p>\n<p>It said the Buhari Presidency&#8217;s hiring of supposed Arewa Pastors was a<br \/>\nsecond attempt to orchestrate fake endorsements ahead of the 2019<br \/>\nelection, recalling the recent Martin Luther King Jr. saga<\/p>\n<p>PDP said both procured endorsements, which had turned out to be fake,<br \/>\nare, to say the least, despicable and betray the nervousness of a<br \/>\nsinking leadership, desperately trying to save its face, having been<br \/>\nrejected by the people.<\/p>\n<p>It is heartrending that because of the desperation of one man, the<br \/>\nintegrity of Nigeria\u2019s seat of power has again been ridiculed as the<br \/>\nworld watched religious bodies and groups in the country disowning the<br \/>\nprocured band.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that this disgraceful drama came barely a week after our nation<br \/>\nsuffered an international show of shame over President Buhari\u2019s<br \/>\npresentation with a procured award fraudulently linked to Martin Luther<br \/>\nKing Jr, speaks volumes of this administration\u2019s proclivity for<br \/>\nfalsehood, lies and deception.<\/p>\n<p>Having failed to gain any endorsements from reputable international<br \/>\nfigures, such as Bill Gates and the Martin Luther Kings Jr group, the<br \/>\nAPC and the Presidency have now shamelessly resorted to cheaper ways and<br \/>\nmeans, particularly, along the unregulated and porous religious and<br \/>\nsectional lines.<\/p>\n<p>It is now overtly manifest that the Buhari administration is ready to<br \/>\neven stage anything, no matter how ignoble, including fake rescue<br \/>\nmissions, to deceive Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that the PDP had earlier alerted Nigerians of plots<br \/>\nby the Federal Government to engage in orchestrated endorsements as well<br \/>\nas issuing of false performance indices.<\/p>\n<p>These disgraceful endorsements are being coordinated by three<br \/>\npresidential aides, a cabinet minister from the southsouth and certain<br \/>\nofficials of the APC, a project for which billions of naira have been<br \/>\nearmarked.<\/p>\n<p>This cabal is also responsible for the renting of crowds, who are<br \/>\nusually conveyed in buses, trucks and trailers, to fill the space during<br \/>\nPresident Buhari\u2019s visits to various states of the federation, as<br \/>\nwitnessed in Benue during the last visit of Mr. President.<\/p>\n<p>That President Buhari could be begging for endorsements only points to<br \/>\nthe fact that he and his cabal have lost the support of Nigerians whom<br \/>\nhis administration has subjected to horrible economic hardships,<br \/>\ntraumatic bloodletting and a bleak future.<\/p>\n<p>If President Buhari and his dysfunctional APC had performed to the least<br \/>\nexpectations of Nigerians, even by implementing the littlest of their<br \/>\nnumerous fake campaign promises, they would have no need for mundane<br \/>\ngimmicks of procuring awards from well known street quacks ahead of the<br \/>\nelections.<\/p>\n<p>We charge all credible groups in the country to be at alert and resist<br \/>\nany attempt by the Presidency and APC to induce them to compromise their<br \/>\nintegrity, as well as guide against plots to use money to infiltrate and<br \/>\ndivide their ranks.<\/p>\n<p>The APC and Buhari Presidency must admit that their time is up as<br \/>\nNigerians are now rallying with the repositioned PDP in the national<br \/>\nquest to rescue our dear nation from the incompetent, failed and<br \/>\ndeceptive administration of the APC, come 2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the recent stage-managed political endorsement by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Buhari Presidency, by procuring individuals who masqueraded as 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