The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said that the 2019 election is a must win for the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Speaking at the meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party in Abuja on Thursday, he said the national convention of the party which produced him as the party flag bearer had given it a lot of
momentum which must be built upon until the aim of winning the presidency is achieved.
He said: “i am convinced without any doubts that this election is for us to win. We have built up so much momentum after the Port Harcourt convention but we also witnessed a lot of the momentum.
“It is now time for us to pick up the momentum again until we land in Aso Villa.
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“We have lost elections, we have learnt our lesson and because we have learnt our lessons we embarked on the reform.
“It is normal therefore after we have reformed ourselves we should return to power and we must return to power because Nigerians have agreed that we have learnt our lessons, we have reformed and we are now ready again to offer them a better leadership than the first time we came into office.”
The presidential candidate further said: “Our aim is to work very hard and collectively liberate our nation from the shackles of hunger, starvation, deprivation, bloodletting, killings and division which bedevil us today. We must all work hard to return our nation to the path of harmony, peace and progress.”
He challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to a national debate as he expressed his readiness for the encounter.
Meanwhile, the former Vice President elicited laughter when he responded to a voice in the venue which had shouted, “Jubril must go, ” a reference to the ongoing social media claim that someone from Sudan may be posing as the Nigerian President.
Atiku has asked: “Which Jubril, the one in Sudan or the one in Abuja?”
The National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, in his address at the occasion, warned the federal government that any attempt to use security agents and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig next year’s election will plunge the nation into crisis.
He also declared that the main opposition party will not accept any result that emerges from a rigged exercise.
The party boss observed that with what happened in the Ekiti, Osun gubernatorial elections and other bye-elections conducted in parts of the country, which he said were rigged, the All Progressive Congress (APC) believes that it can as well use the same crude tactics to win the 2019 general election.
“Also intelligence report before us show that these agents are bent in manipulating the 2019 elections.
The consequences of rigging 2019 election may be terrible for our dear country. So, we call on all Nigerians and the international community to add their voices to the agitation towards ensuring that the APC, FG and the INEC conduct free and fair transparent election in 2019,” he stated.
Secondus affirmed that PDP was not contesting election with the APC but with the security agencies and INEC.
He called on the leadership of the electoral body led by Prof. Mahmud Yakubu and the Inspector General of Police, Abubakar Idris, to resign.
“Majority of Nigerians who are disillusioned about the state affair of this country are all excited and praying ceaselessly that we can get it right and that the APC administration can be chased out of their lives,” he added.
In his remark, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, echoed the position of the party boss on the lack of independence expected to be exhibited by INEC and the police in 2019, saying that the party must remain strong to fight against such rigging.
He said just as the party was able to overcome a contentious national convention, it will also conquer the coming presidential election.
Saraki stated: “Same way we conquered it then, we will conquer it again this time at the Presidential level, but to that, we must stay strong.
“I have said it many times APC is not our opponent on the ballot paper, it is the security agents that are opponent on the ballot paper.
“If you talk to 10 Nigerians today they will tell you, yes, your party is popular but they will rig it. What does that mean? We must stand, we must stand for free and credible election. We must stand for an election where people have the right to vote.
“Election cannot be credible when you have a practice that two days before the election, all opposition leaders will start looking for them in their houses to arrest them, that cannot be a credible election and that must stop.
“We must stand for an election because if the election is not free and credible, you are creating a crisis in the country, and people should know, and they know the responsibility that this country will hold them for that.
“Go and do a free and fair election. If you win, we accept because we are Democrats and if you lose, you too should accept because it is so important because the greatest beneficiary of democracy is this government.”
He affirmed that there will be problems in the country if indeed the APC uses the security agencies and INEC to rig election, saying that President Muhammadu Buhari must be voted out to allow a competent person to steer the affairs of the country.
According to him, “you cannot give what you do not have.”
He said that the PDP through its recently organized national convention has shown Nigerians that it is ready to take over and move the country forward.
The Senate President was however confident that Buhari can be defeated as experience has shown that an incumbent president can be defeated even though it is not easy.
“You can’t give what you don’t have. Let the man who knows how to provide food come and do it. Let the man who is there who can’t do it leave for the man who can,” Saraki declared.
Meanwhile, the party has formally inaugurated its Presidential Campaign Council headed by Saraki.
At a ceremony which took place in Legacy House, Abuja on Thursday, Atiku also called for the resignation of the Inspector General of Police, Idris.
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buhari sports apc nice pdp boko haram
Is debate an election,your mumu never do
Wawa tell us d skull u went nonsense
na only buhari dey contest
Malam Buhari is not brilliant enough to stand Atiku on one on one debate.
Buhari is intellectual-challenged. He can never come for a debate. Atiku is 100 times better than Buhari.
Atiku can only debate Buhari because he is the main opposition candidate. Others are attention-seekers.
Atiku everybody know you as king godfather PDP looters, buhari better than you 100% sure
Chidiebere Nwobodo same way Jonathan was intellectually challenged when he refused to attend the 2011 debate. Meanwhile, Buhari attended…Lol
Pmb is going to stunned atiku and PDP like he and APC have done in other areas. APC is getting better and better in the politics of leadership while pdp is getting worst and worst in the politics of opposite.
Debate are for children so atiku borrow sense
Atiku wetin u wan tell us for God sake 8 yr u did nothing
Atiku we are waiting for u remember what u say to d poor during una regime
Buhari have been tested and he failed.
Now is the time to try Atiku if he fail Nigerians will remove him in the next election. no second term to a failure by this way Nigerians will get it right. I do hope that Buhari and his cohorts will quickly realise that Nigeria has changed significant since 2015 and are waiting patiently to show Buhari the way out. Buhari is narrow in thinking and perception. his concept of nation hood revolves around him and his ethnocentric figures. The real change is about to happen. With credible achievements APC would have won the 2019 presidential elections with ease as a sitting government. Now the emergence of ATIKU has made that very doubtful. With restructuring campaign alone, Buhari is headed for an embarrassing defeat. Now, ATIKU is like a moving train. Nothing can stop him now, not least, the most hated president (Buhari) in the history of Nigeria.
What is One-On-Debate? What happen to the other contestants? PDP will not stop the discrimination that has become a way of life to them. The Presidential Debate has been scheduled for 19th Jan, 2019. Is Atiku and the PDP jittery already? No doubt, Buhari and Atiku will be at the receiving end that day. Ezekwesili, Moghalu, Fela, Sowore, Duke will all have a free ride on them. We’re waiting patiently for the day.
If dey now Atiku,sir why can’t u travel to U.S?den he wil start grumbling ,blaming everybody
man if we continue this way we are not ready to Progress,
Chidiebere Nwobodo To prove what? People like you that believe in whatever Nnamdi Kanu said is true. Besides were discussing Nigeria issues not Biafraud
In your own thinking, Atiku is the real change? u actually want a ‘real change’ but u re still rooting for an old cargo to come on board. Stop deceiving yourself.
If u want a ‘ real change’ , a young and 21st century compliant leader shd be d real deal. Moghalu, Fela, Sowore, Duke, Ezekwesili , these are the ‘real change’.
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And when Atiku is challenged to go to US, you guys will start masturbating.
Debate or no debate I’m for next level. PDP has nothing to tell us after 16 year of looting, corruption and misrule. Pmb will surely have my vote any day, anytime .
Who has debate helped?
Atiku have nothing to tell Nigerians but stealing
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Atiku was a debate with their “Jubril”? I doubt it
Atiku has started again,you wi knw that wen money talks PVC has the voice
PDP IS A DEN OF KILLERS -(Prof. Wole Soyinka)
Read through PDP’s killing history.
Like I stated earlier, may Atiku’s competence not kill all of you. Before this dispensation, under PDP’s misrule, which Atiku was actively part of for 8yrs, nearly all murder cases were swept under the carpet and remain unresolved. To the extent an Attorney General was killed!
Late Chief Bola Ige, as a sitting Attorney General of the Federation was shot dead in his bedroom in Bodija, Ibadan in December 23, 2001.
Similarly, Chief Aminasaoari Dikibo, PDP Deputy National Chairman was ambushed near Asaba in daylight and was murdered in October 22, 2004.
What about the gruesome cold blood murder of Dr. Harry Marshal on March 05, 2003, at the climax for the 2003 presidential elections? Google who his son and family are accusing of masterminding his assassination. The killers are within us.
A rundown of some of the notable assassinations between 1999 – 2014:-
Janet Oladape, PDP leader in Odigbo LGA clubbed to death by gunmen on August 13, 2002.
Alhaji Ahmed Pategi, Kwara State Chairman, PDP, murdered at Aiyetoro, in Kogi State, on the 15th of August, 2002.
Barnabas Igwe, Chairman, Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) and his wife, Abigail Igwe, murdered on the 1st of September, 2002.
Victor Nwankwo: younger brother of Arthur Nwankwo, founder, Eastern Mandate Union (EMU) assassinated on August 29, 2001.
Momoh Lawal: relation of Akaaba, former Chairman, Okene LGA in Kogi killed on March 5, 2001.
Odunayo Olagbaju: member, Osun House of Assembly, killed in Ile-Ife on December 21, 2001
Chimere Ikoku: former VC, UNN, killed in his residence in Enugu on 20th of October 2002.
Dele Arojo, PDP guber aspirant, killed by unknown assailants in Lagos on November 25, 2002.
February, 2003, Chief Ogbonnaya Uche, ANPP senatorial candidate in Imo, assassinated.
Theodore A. Agwatu, Principal Secretary to the Governor of Imo State, killed in February 2003.
Mrs. Emily Omope, an AD woman leader died in March, 2003 at UCH Ibadan after an acid attack in December, 2002 by unknown persons.
February, 2003 Ogbonnaya Uche, ANPP senatorial candidate for Orlu was killed in his home by unknown gunmen. Killers are yet to be found till date.
Andrew Agom, A member of PDP Board of Trustees and former boss of Nigeria Airways, was also killed on March 4, 2004. Agom was on the entourage of the former Benue State governor, Senator George Akume, when he was killed.
Death moved to d South West on May 15, 2005 with d murder of leading financier of Oronmiyan Group, a socio-political organization, Alabi Okoju, at Gbongan by assassins.
On July 2006, Lagos PDP guber aspirant, Funsho Williams was killed at his Dolphin Estate home Ikoyi, Lagos.
Former World Bank consultant and PDP guber aspirant in Ekiti State, Dr. Ayo Daramola, was also murdered in 2006.
Kehinde Fasuba, a look alike twin brother of Taye Fasuba, then Ado-Ekiti LG Chairman was killed on January 03, 2009. Taye Fasuba himself escaped death in 2004.
The assasination of DIPO DINA was a huge personal loss to me. On Monday, January 25, 2010 assassins shot and killed him around Covenant University, Ota. Dipo Dina was AC guber candidate in 2007. Gbenga Daniel indicated recently that Amosun should be investigated for his death.
Unlike now that we are all free to tweet nonsense at Buhari, In the years under review, your freedom to life as a journalists, after excising your freedom of speech was not guaranteed. Godwin Agbroko, Chairman, ThisDay Editorial Board was assassinated on December 22, 2006.
Another ThisDay journalist, Abayomi Ogundeji, was murdered on August 17, 2008. Those who know better are insisting that his death may have been political. People who are aware at about this period in our political history knew it was dangerous working at ThisDay Newspapers then.
Another journalist, Bayo Ohu of Guardian Newspapers was shot dead on a Sunday, September 20, 2009 by a gang of 5 men and a woman in his home in Egbeda, Lagos. Bayo Ohu was working on the Certificate Forgery story of Customs Controller General, Abdullahi Dikko before his murder.
Here is a summary of notable unresolved killings of journalists and politicians in Nigeria. Please pay attention to the dates:
1. Igwe Nwankwo – Shot February 15, 2000 in Anambra.
2. Nicholas Okhuakhua Shot June 2000 in Lagos.
3. Mohammed Shuaibu Shot September 2000 in Lagos.
4. Obatou Mumbo Shot October 17, 2000 in Onitsha.
5. Idowu Braimoh Shot November 5, 2000 in Ondo
6. Joseph Osayande December 4, 2000 shot at Benin
7. Chief Layi Balogun December 10, 2000 shot in Lagos.
8. Monday Ndor August 19, 2001 shot at Port Harcourt.
9. Onyebuchi Ede shot August 23, 2001 Ebonyi.
10. Chibueze Idah August 23, 2001 Ebonyi Shot Unresolved
11. Ogbonna Odimbaiwe August 23, 2001 Ebonyi Shot Unresolved
12. Ifeanyi Nnaji August 23, 2001 Ebonyi Shot Unresolved
13. Odunayo Olagbaju December 20, 2001 Ife Shot Unresolved
14. Chief Bola Ige December 23, 2001 Ibadan Shot Unresolved
15. Eyo Eyo April 2002 Calabar Shot Unresolved
16. Ifeanyi Igbokwe April 18, 2002 Lagos Shot Unresolved
17. Musa Dayo May 9, 2002 Bauchi Shot Unresolved
18. Christopher Ogbonna May 26, 2002 Nsukka Shot Unresolved
19. Maria-Theresa Nsa June 11,2002 Cross River Shot Unresolved
20. Chief & Mrs. Barnabas Igwe September 1, 2002 Onitsha Shot Unresolved
21. Ogbonnaya Uche February 8, 2003 Owerri Shot Unresolved
21. E. Emenike February 13, 2003 Imo Shot Unresolved
22. Theodore Agwatu February 22, 2003 Owerri Shot Unresolved
23. Marshal Harry March 5, 2003 Abuja Shot Unresolved
24. Bala Mai-Haice March 17, 2003 Deba Shot Unresolved
25. Ajibola Olanipekun June 21, 2003 Ibadan Shot Unresolved
26. Dikibo February 6, 2004 Delta Shot Unresolved
27. Lateef Olaniyan July 16, 2005 Ibadan Shot Unresolved
28. Peter Eboigbe August 11, 2005 Benin Shot Unresolved
The list is endles s! This isn’t to say the internal security has improved today, but at least, so far, we have little or no political scores settled by political assassins.
Nigerians please think twice and do not use your hands and resources to return PDP to power. A vote for PDP at the center is a vote for return of political assassination across the states and Abuja. Do not forget the battle to end Boko Haram bequeathed to us to settle political scores with one of their own, GEJ is still on. The heightened herdsmen/farmers crisis is researched as political blackmail tool of the opposing PDP. Innocent souls were lost in four states in north central.
Ask yourself, how old is Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria history?
How come they were not deadly under Buhari when he was a military head of state?
How come fulani/farmers massive killings in 2017 to mid 2018 has stopped after Nigerian govt delpoyee troops to Benue and arrests were made?
Is this the first time a Fulaniman will be president and commander in chief?
Can a government sponsored insecurity against herself?
Nigerians should ask questions and query every popanganda authored by opposing PAPA DECEIVING PINKIN PARTY (PDP). Let us reason together and answer above with sincerity. Do not fall for propaganda and blackmail of political class hungry for looting to resume at Aso Rock and massive looting in states without fear of the centrally controlled EFCC, ICPC and fear of GOD.
Vote for Next Level for rebuilding of Nigeria to continue in the interest of next generation. Let us endure the pains of rebuilding for tomorrow.
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I can’t accept an invitation to looting be it of whatever type,say YES to WHO says NO to LOOTING!
He must waiten? Na offside he dey
Both should come out and tell us what they have in stock for us(masses).
Atiku can win Debate and let Buhari win Election
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for me I want Atiku to win,he have more experience than buhari. pple don’t vote for party again,they vote for candidate. #Atiku 2019# must win by God grace. Amen.