Abuja – Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and
Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, has said that if the opposition People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) wants to make family the issue in the coming
elections, the All Progressives Congress (APC) would gladly accept the
challenge.
“Let this be the subject for 2019 election,” he told State House Correspondents in an interaction on Wednesday.
Reacting
to various comments by several organs of the opposition party on
remarks made by the President on views publicly expressed by his wife,
Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, in an interview, the Presidential
Spokesman, said questions raised of the President by the PDP in regard
to his wife only amounted to an own goal.
“The PDP leadership
cannot afford to make family an issue in this campaign. Need I say more?
The only thing I want to add is that PDP is engaging in mud-slinging
because it finds it easier than speaking on their despicable 16-year
record in the course of which they abused the trust of Nigerians.
“They
made a mess of everything including the economy, security and
infrastructure. It has come to the destiny of President Muhammadu Buhari
to correct their mistakes.
“The PDP doesn’t see anything beyond
grabbing power, power at all costs. As an opposition party, they have
failed. They have remained disconnected with the masses of our people.
“It
is an irony that a party that boasted as being the largest in Africa is
now begging small parties for alliances. Even if they get all those
paper parties behind them, they will still fail. A Presidential contest
is more than the issuance of daily press releases containing falsehoods.
“They
have launched a campaign for the Presidency, a campaign that has failed
to get any traction. PDP members are themselves admitting that the
campaign hadn’t made a good start, that attendance at rallies had
unarguably been thin. The whole thing is not working; that President
Buhari is unstoppable,” Garba Shehu said.
He continued, “rather
than a so-called cabal, an imaginary creation attached to all past
governments of the country, President Buhari is remote-controlled by the
200 million-plus Nigerian people whose interest is uppermost in
everything he says and does.
“The PDP doesn’t have the strength
and support to fight President Buhari. They don’t have the records in
security, economy and the war against corruption to mount any meaningful
challenge.
“They have no records of accomplishments in
infrastructure. In the 16 years they held sway, they have nothing to
show for the colossal oil revenues earned, including USD 16 billion
doled upfront from the Central Bank for power, without a single megawatt
to show for all that money. That is why they are dragging the
President’s wife into their politics.”
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