Peter Obi’s Performance At Debate Has Improved Our Party’s Profile — PDP

Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said
on Sunday that the sterling performance of Peter Obi, its vice
presidential candidate, in Friday’s vice presidential debate held in
Abuja had greatly improved the rating of the party in Nigeria and in the
international community.

Speaking with Daily Independent, Kola
Ologbondiyan, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, also said the
commendations given to Obi by majority of those who watched the debate
was a pointer to what would play out in the 2019 presidential election
which, he said, would signal the end of the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC).

According to him, the euphoria that greeted Obi’s
performance in the debate is similar to what happened in Port Harcourt
in October when Atiku Abubakar emerged the presidential flag bearer of
the PDP.

“Yes, we believe Peter Obi’s brilliant performance at
the debate has positively affected the fortunes of PDP. His victory at
that debate has sounded a death knell to the APC and its presidential
candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari.

“All over the country,
just like the day Atiku emerged as the candidate of the party at the
national convention in Port Harcourt, there is so much ecstasy and there
is so much acceptance by Nigerians that in Peter Obi, they have found a
true vice president that Nigeria needs at this critical time in the
life of our nation,” he said.

Also sharing Ologbondiyan’s views,
Senator Ighoyota Amori, Political Adviser to the National Chairman of
the PDP, said worldwide, many people were now seeing PDP in a different
light and they believe it had something beneficial for Nigerians after
witnessing Obi’s performance.

“After the vice presidential
debate, the profile of the PDP has risen so high because of the
brilliant performance of the vice presidential candidate of the PDP.

“Not
only in Nigeria but all over the world, a lot of people are praising
the PDP as a party that knows its onions and has something good to
deliver to Nigerians,” Amori said.

Amori also condemned President
Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to assent to the Electoral Amendment Bill,
saying it was a ploy by the ruling party to rig the 2019 elections.

“We believe that the failure of the president to sign the Electoral Bill into law is preparatory to rigging.

“They
are planning to produce another Kano wonder where over three million
people voted, no cancellation, no void votes, and no rejected votes,” he
said.

Source:- Independentng