PDP says President has lost popularity

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in a statement issued on Sunday, February 11, 2018, said that President Buhari has lost popularity in his hometown, Katsina and Nigeria.

According to PDP, the All Progressives Congress (APC) used military force to intimidate voters and steal votes.

The National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said “The fact that it still held a legitimate 22,690 votes against the 30,719 fraudulently allocated to the APC, despite the use of force and other brazen infractions by the APC, shows that PDP is the natural winner of the election.

“It further strengthens our resolve that our party, the PDP, still commands a genuine followership among Nigerians.

“We however invite Nigerians and the international community to mark how the APC and its controlled Federal Government are corrupting our electoral system, by using force to intimidate the people and steal their votes.

“The APC is also corrupting security officials to use maximum force as a desperate measure to save President Buhari, whose popularity had dipped across our nation.

“In their desperation to help the President, the APC in consort with the inept Presidency declared war on the people by ensuring the deployment of over 1000 heavily armed and hostile security operatives for an election that held in only 15 polling units within two local governments of Katsina State.

“It is unfortunate that the APC has recoursed to worst kind of intimidation and violations twelve calender months ahead of the general elections.

“Currently, the PDP is compiling a comprehensive documentary evidence of infractions and irregularities including barring of legitimate voters from accessing polling centers, assigning of polling units to APC government functionaries, indiscriminate arrests of opposition members and supporters, underaged voting and allocation of votes for APC as well as conflict between results from the polling units and collation centers among others.

“Also being compiled is the identity of the security and electoral officials used by the APC to subvert the will of the people, which will be made public while ensuring that they are prosecuted.

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“The clear message to the APC is that the will of the people will prevail in 2019 as Nigerians will never allow the shameful impunity and suppression witnessed in Katsina and Kano during last Saturday’s election as they will be fully rallied to resist such across board.”

Buhari’s regime is a monumental disaster

Meanwhile, the PDP chairman, Uche Secondus, has described Buhari’s regime as a monumental disaster.

Secondus said that Nigerians are suffering from the President’s style of government, which he described as ‘nuclear nepotism’.

He also promised Nigerians that they will be rescued from the hands of Buhari in 2019.