Defected Senators Left ‘Sinking’ APC Ship, Can’t Work For Buhari – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed Presidency’s claim that the 14 senators who recently defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) will work for President Muhammadu Buhari‘s 2019 re-election.

Senator Ita Enang, the Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, had claimed on Friday that “a great number of them have indicated that even if they pursue their bid on a different political platform, they will still campaign for President Buhari for 2019 on the APC platform.”

Enang had equally claimed that the lawmakers who defected en masse in both the lower and upper legislative chambers from the APC to PDP, did so not because they bore grievances against President Buhari.

Reacting to the presidential aide’s claim, however, the PDP described the Presidency’s submission as “a hallucination of a failing goverment that has become jittery over the imminent loss of the 2019 election, the PDP says that the Presidency’s recourse to bare- face lies and blackmail will not save the disintegrating All Progressives Congress (APC) from drowning.

The party said “those who deserted the sinking ship of APC did so in protest against the incomptences of President Muhammad Buhari and the unabating killings and bloodletting across our nation.

It said,” the APC-led Federal Government has woefully failed to deliver on any of its promises and has nothing to showcase except a recourse to underhand tactics and intimidation of opponents and perceived enemies.

“Those who left the APC are therefore no longer prepared to live a lie that everything is okay with our nation whereas under the leadership of President Buhari the drift towards anarchy as well as the indices of a failing state is very manifest.

“The PDP therefore finds it ludicrous that the Presidency can sit back and claim that compatriots who have seen ahead that President Buhari is taking us to nowhere will turn around and contemplate casting their votes for him in 2019.

“We, therefore, urge the Buhari Presidency to stop its fantasy game and confront the challenges of nationhood which from all indications has overwhelmed them,” said the part in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.