2019: ‘You’re Jittery Over Buhari’s Inevitable Defeat,’ PDP Replies Oshiomhole

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has responded to the claim by National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, that no political party has “suffered huge, huge mass defection” like its party.

Recall that Comrade Oshiomhole had claimed on Friday, after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, that “the so-called founding fathers” of the PDP had left the party and that the party was too paralyzed to return to power in 2019.

The APC Chairman had also attacked former President Olusegun Obasanjo, describing him as an “old man” who does nothing but go around like an “organising secretary” recruiting “tired players” to stop President Buhari’s re-election in 2019.

But responding in a statement on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP described Oshiomhole as a “factional” Chairman of the APC who has become Jittery of the President’s inevitable defeat at the presidential election.

The opposition party said, “Oshiomhole’s resort to insults betrays the confusion of a depressed politician seeking to cover his personal vacuity and inner fears of the inevitable defeat awaiting President Muhammadu Buhari and his dysfunctional APC in 2019.

“The PDP holds nothing but pity for Oshiomhole, who is now licking his own vomit by going around cap in hand and begging the same compatriots, whom he earlier called names like ‘inconsequential’, ‘hungry birds’ and ‘tired feet’, not to leave his sinking party.

“Unfortunately for Oshiomhole and his Presidential sponsor, events of the weeks ahead will clear all doubts that APC is dead and that Oshiomhole is just an undertaker whose job is to butcher and cremate the derelict contraption of oppressors who are falsely hailing themselves as messiahs.

“What Oshiomhole and President Buhari, in their fantasy trip, fail to understand is that those they seek to draw into the cave are already aware of the story of the sick lion and that all animals that went visiting never returned. They know that the tiger do not offer his back for a ride without a price.”

The PDP said, “Very soon Oshiomhole and President Buhari would find themselves alone in the cursed ‘Black Pearl’ that the APC has irredeemably become.

“While we understand Oshiomhole’s frustration over his inability to stop the coalition, the fact remains that he and President Buhari are fighting a lost battle in trying to destroy it.

“Nigerians have already reached a consensus to coalesce and vote-out President Buhari come 2019 and replace him with a more competent, pan-Nigerian President. No amount of intimidation, threats, violence or even enticement of any kind can change this iron-cast resolve.

“The PDP therefore counsels Oshiomhole not to think that clinging to a sinking ship and its deserted captain can save him from prosecution from allegations of humongous corruption and siphoning of billions of naira while serving as Edo state governor, for which he will surely stand trial.”