The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s desire is to appropriate the powers of all branches of government to himself.
The party boss has therefore warned that the nation faces the possibility of operating under a full-blown dictatorship.
The party Chairman who was speaking about President Muhammadu Buhari’s suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), to jubilant party supporters at the Godswill Akpabio stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom state on Monday, alleged that President Buhari’s ambition is to be Chief Justice, Senate President and the Speaker of the House of the Representatives even as he claims to a converted Democrat.
“The President wants to be everything, so that he can jail whoever he wants, if he fails to reverse the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, something will happen, God will reverse it,” he said.
While noting that the President’s actions have become a huge threat to democracy and national cohesion, he warned against any attempt to rig election in Akwa Ibom state.
In a related development, the main opposition party has observed that ‘the unprecedented crowd’ that received its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, at the State Presidential rally in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom state on Monday, is a direct statement to President Buhari that he has come to the end of the road.
A statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary, and Director, Media & Publicity PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation in Abuja on Monday recalled that the energetic crowd at the rally made mockery of the scanty attendance at President Buhari’smuch-hypedd Presidential Flag-off rally at the same venue on December 28 last year, and further confirmed to Mr President that he no longer commands the followership of Nigerians.
It said: “The fact that Atiku Abubakar’s state rallies had always had much more crowd than President Buhari’s campaign flag-off in Uyo, which has the attendance of his supporters from all the states of the federation, further confirms that Nigerians have decided on Atiku Abubakar as the next President of our country.
“The deafening cheers, enthusiasm and passion with which the people received Atiku Abubakar in Uyo as against the cold response and sneers that greeted Mr President at his campaign flag-off, also serves as an eye opener to him that he is only being deceived into thinking that he has any form of support in the Niger Delta region.”
The PPCO further recalled: “The pitiable sight where President Buhari could only slur and failed to articulate any clear message as his rented crowd, which refused to carry APC brooms, abandoned him and started leaving the venue while he was still making his speech.
“From the rousing reception being accorded to Atiku Abubakar in all our rallies in the various geo-political zones and states, he has so far visited, it is clear that Nigerians, irrespective of states, ethnicity, sectional and political affiliations have attained a consensus on Atiku Abubakar as our next President.”
The PPCO therefore counseled President Buhari and the APC to note “the tide and end their desperate shenanigans including the assault on the opposition and our democratic institutions, as such will never change the determination by Nigerians to vote them out of office come, February 16, 2019.
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