THE Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council has decried the performance of President Muhammadu Buhari at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) programme entitled: “The Candidates”, describing his performance as “scandalous.”
The PDP Presidential Campaign Council said in a statement, on Thursday, held that “President Buhari lacked both mental and physical capacity to run a local council not to talk of a country of about 200 million people.”
A statement by the council’s Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Lere Olayinka, claimed that “the president talked off-point throughout; answered no question appropriately to the extent that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo tried to help him answer questions that were asked him.”
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He challenged those still supporting the president’s second term bid to, “in all honesty tell Nigerians why the same Buhari that they saw on NTA on Wednesday night should continue as president.”
According to him, “they should tell Nigerians how a man who could not comprehend anything on that live programme except when it had to do with promoting nepotism should keep running the affairs of Nigeria.
“In saner climes, after his disastrous performance on the Candidates last night, President Buhari will be asked to go home and rest. But because they are selfish and wicked, they will pretend that the NTA programme never happened.”
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He added that “they also saw him in 2015 when he was talking about Deutsch Mark that was last spent in Europe in 1999 as currency being used in Germany, referring to Angela Merkel as President Michelle and Germany as West Germany. But they will never mind the international embarrassment that he has become as long as their hold on power is sustained and their 2023 presidential ambition is guaranteed.”
According to Olayinka, “the only reason the cabal running the country wants him to remain in office is to guarantee their 2023 presidential ambition and access to the national treasury.”
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