Fayose’s blackmail can’t stop Buhari –APC

The All Progressives Congress in
Ekiti State has said Governor
Ayodele Fayose’s alleged blackmail
of its candidate, Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari (retd.) cannot stop him from
winning the presidential election.
It said the governor’s criticism of
Buhari, was driven by self-
preservation over the governor’s
past misdeeds and not in the
national interest.
According to the party, the
governor is fighting the battle of
his life that runs contrary to the
general mood of the nation.
It advised him to concentrate his
energy on how to ensure victory for
PDP’s candidate, President
Goodluck Jonathan, instead of
lecturing APC on why it should not
field General Buhari as its candidate
for the March 28 presidential
election.
A statement by the state APC
Publicity Secretary, Taiwo
Olatubosun, said Nigerians had
made up their minds to have Buhari
as their President, adding that, “No
amount of blackmail and rhetoric
fuelled by selfishness will change
the course of change sweeping
across the country.”
Reminding Fayose that APC was not
the same thing as PDP, Olatubosun
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 noted that the
governor was being hypocritical in
his criticism of Buhari and the
allegations he was raising over his
health status, saying that his
actions pointed to the fact that
Buhari was the favoured candidate
among a vast majority of Nigerians.