Buhari Can’t Decide His Successor in 2023, He’s Failed Nigerians – PDP
POLITICS DIGEST – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to forget the issue of influencing his successor in 2023.
The Party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan on Wednesday, told Buhari that no one can decide the president of the country, other than the electorates.
PDP also said the president should apologise to the nation over his comment to “hand Nigeria over” when he met with the founder of Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare on Tuesday at Aso Rock.
It stated that the constitution confers on the Nigerian people the power to choose their president through a free, fair and credible election conducted without interference from anybody.
“Our party cautions the Buhari presidency to note that Nigeria is a sovereign nation governed by rules and that nobody, no matter how highly placed, has the power to hand her over to anybody,” PDP said.
The party noted that President Buhari’s continuous reference to his successor, less than a year into his second tenure in office, is a direct acceptance of failure and lack of capacity to manage the affairs of a nation as complex as Nigeria.
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According to the PDP, the president’s comment to “hand Nigeria over,” is an affront to Nigerians and a huge insult on their sensibility and sense of sovereignty to freely choose their leader.
The party added that the “continued allusion to a successor by the Buhari presidency shows that the president and the APC have no agenda for the nation for the next three years.
“It further underscores the hopelessness of the administration and the sorry situation our nation is faced with under President Buhari and the APC.
“Our party, standing with millions of Nigerians, counsels the Buhari presidency to bury its confessed interests in the 2023 presidency and desist from making unsolicited allusions and references to a successor, as failed leaders can only bequeath failure on a people.
“It also exposes the reason behind APC’s resort to blackmail, fabrication and attack on well-meaning Nigerians instead of enunciating a direction for its incompetent administration.
“In insisting that President Buhari has interest in his successor, the Buhari presidency is in direct aggression against the will of the people to freely elect a president as guaranteed by the constitution.”
The party, therefore, called on the president to immediately withdraw the offensive and provocative remark to “hand Nigeria over”, in its response to Rev. Tunde Bakare’s comment on the 2023 presidency.
It advised him to end his interest in the 2023 presidency and use the remaining years of his tenure to get competent hands to assist him to manage the affairs of the nation, while he concentrates on his retirement plans, as Nigerians expect no solutions from him and his party.
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