AN All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant and former head of state, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, has said the country may be overrun by the dreaded Boko Haram sect, armed robbers and kidnappers in the next four years, should the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) be allowed to continue being in power.According to Buhari, no Nigerian went to bed any more fully secured, as insurgents and criminals are overrunning the country.
The former head of state said this in Asaba, on Wednesday, when he met with APC delegates from the South-South region for the December 10 congress of the party.
He said Nigerians no longer needed the PDP at the federal and state levels, since it had progressively destroyed the security and economy of the nation.
Buhari, who said Nigerians should vote PDP out due to its failure, maintained that APC would secure the country, even as he recalled his statement 30 years ago, that “we have no other country but Nigeria and we all will remain here to salvage it.”
The presidential aspirant charged Nigerians not to allow ethnicity or religion divide them, but should remain united to change the system.
Earlier, another presidential aspirant on the platform of APC and former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, relieved his role in frustrating the third term bid of President Olusegun Obansanjo while in office.
He told APC delegates from Delta State in Asaba recently, that he sacrificed his life to stop the bid.
Atiku said the Obansanjo-led administration would have been in power till date if his interest had succeeded.
Buhari promoting Boko Haram’s agenda —Pdp
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has, however, accused Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) of promoting Boko Haram sect’s agenda, following his claim that the insurgents will overrun Nigeria in the next four years if the PDP is not voted out.
National publicity secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a reaction to the statement made by Buhari, told the Nigerian Tribune in Abuja, on Wednesday, that if it was the former leader’s intention to see insurgents overrun the country, he would not succeed.
He said President Goodluck Jonathan was working hard to tackle insurgency and had promised that by the end of the year, the activities of Boko Haram would be brought under control.
He said: “We don’t think Buhari is the spokesperson of the Boko Haram. Even if this is his intention, he is not God.
“Nigeria is in the hands of God. God will shape our future.
“Who do we believe? Do we believe a president who has been elected to take action or do we believe man, who, instead of focusing on his effort to run at his own convention, he is dabbling into stirring people or trying to promote the activities of the insurgents.
“If, indeed, he is promoting the activities of the insurgents, then, we can advise him to wait for whichever country that those people create and be president of that nation.
“But for this country to move forward and for the interest of the nation, what he is saying is completely at variance with a statesman and we should not expect that at this stage of our national development, in this fragile moment of our development that a highly-placed statesman can make such statements or be promoting the insurgents.”
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