Your blackmail can’t stop Buhari from winning the presidential election – APC tells Fayose

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State
has said Governor Ayodele Fayose’s alleged
blackmail of its presidential candidate, Muhammadu
Buhari, cannot stop him from emerging victorious in
the March 28 election.

According to the APC, Fayose’s criticism of Buhari
is driven by self-preservation over the governor’s
past misdeeds and not in the interest of the nation.
The APC said Fayose is “fighting the battle of his
life” that runs contrary to the general mood of the
nation, and therefore advised him focus his energy
on how to ensure victory for PDP’s candidate,
President Goodluck Jonathan, instead of lecturing
APC on why Buhari shouldn’t be the party’s
presidential candidate.

The APC’s position was contained in a statement
by the state Publicity Secretary of the party, Taiwo
Olatubosun.

He said Nigerians had already made up their minds
to elect Buhari as their President on March 28,
adding that, “No amount of blackmail and rhetoric
fuelled by selfishness will change the course of
change sweeping across the country.”

Olatubosun, while reminding Fayose that APC was
different from the PDP, said, “PDP has an agenda
to kill all institutions of government as it is
currently doing and make corruption a creed. Never
in the history of this country have we recorded
cases of frauds and scandals as we have today in
Nigeria. These are the legacies that PDP can flaunt.
Unfortunately, Fayose is equating PDP with
Nigeria.

“Fayose has turned APC to a PDP affair. He said
former President Olusegun Obasanjo imposed a sick
man, the late Umaru Yar’Adua, on PDP in 2007
and President Yar’Adua died after two years in
office. The question is; is Buhari in PDP and is he
now being imposed by Obasanjo again? How does
Buhari’s old age threaten PDP’s bid to rule for 60
years?

“Again, Fayose said he had a vision that Buhari will
never be president. If he is sure of his vision, why
is he breathless about Buhari’s candidacy?”
Olatubosun also stated that Fayose was being
hypocritical in his criticism of Buhari and the
allegations he was raising over his health status,
noting that his actions pointed to the fact that
Buhari was the favored candidate majority of
Nigerians are clamoring for.