{"id":62485,"date":"2018-06-03T19:14:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T18:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62485"},"modified":"2018-06-03T19:14:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T18:14:06","slug":"why-president-buhari-is-scared-of-2019-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/why-president-buhari-is-scared-of-2019-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Why President Buhari Is Scared of 2019 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the declaration by President<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Muhammadu Buhari that he cannot match the resources of the opposition<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">ahead of the 2019 presidential election is a clear admission that he has<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">totally squandered the goodwill that brought him into office in 2015,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">due to his abysmal failure.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This revelation by President Buhari and his dysfunctional All<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Progressives Congress (APC) further portrays Mr. President and his party<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">as mortally afraid of the PDP, having realized that the key electoral<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">resource which our renewed PDP enjoys is the overwhelming support and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">goodwill of Nigerians.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It is unfortunate that President Buhari would resort to face-saving<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">stunts, barefaced blackmail and outright condemnation of the PDP rather<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">than admitting his failures to fulfill campaign promises that he freely<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">made to Nigerians.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Perhaps, Mr. President needs to know that Nigerians have become more<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">politically sophisticated and that the only resources needed by a<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">political party or a candidate in an election is the goodwill of the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">people and not financial reserves.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">President Buhari and the APC should not be surprised that Nigerians have<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">rejected them and returned to the PDP.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Here are the reasons: In the last three years, the Buhari-led APC<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">administration wrecked our resilient economy, which was thriving under<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the PDP; escalated hatred, violence and daily bloodletting by insurgents<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">and marauders across our country; brought acute hunger and starvation,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">institutionalized siege mentality, persecution and trampling of rights<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">of citizens while turning our nation into one of the worst places to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">live.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It is indeed pitiable that instead of seeking ways of regaining the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">support of Nigerians, President Buhari and his APC are engaging in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">needless propaganda and working on how to financially sway voters.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Unfortunately, Nigerians have already moved beyond the deceits of APC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Indeed, President Buhari\u2019s fixation on money politics confirms fears<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">that the unabated syphoning of trillions of naira by the cabal at the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Buhari Presidency through sleazy oil subsidy deals in the NNPC and the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Ministry of Petroleum, in addition to the looting of public funds in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">other agencies, under the APC, are all preparatory for the manipulation<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">of votes for President Buhari in 2019.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Perhaps this accounts for why a government that claims to be fighting<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">corruption is breaking new grounds in corruption-related activities.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">We want President Buhari and the sinking APC to know that the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">repositioned PDP will not rely on money to win the 2019 general<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">elections. The goodwill and support of Nigerians are enough resources<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">for our victory.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">President Buhari should therefore not think that he is addressing<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Nigerians of 2015, who gave him votes by listening to mere rhetoric and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">tales by moonlight.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Nigerians have moved on and they know that the PDP is the only credible<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">vehicle to return our nation to the path of peace, national cohesion and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">economic prosperity, which were the hallmarks of the PDP years, before<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the unfortunate incursion of the APC.<\/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) says the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari that he cannot match the resources of the opposition ahead of the 2019 presidential election is a clear&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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