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Buhari is Merely a Front for Tinubu, PDP Alleges

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PDP took a swipe at the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, describing him as merely a front for the party’s National leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

The PDP however admitted that its flag-bearer, President Goodluck Jonathan was up for the presidential contest in the February 14, 2015 election with the former Governor of Lagos state, Alhaji Bola Tinubu and not General Muhammadu Buhari.

According to PDP in a statement yesterday by its national Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, a vote for the former head of state and the 2011 Presidential candidate of the defunct, Congress for Progressives Change, CPC, was simply a vote for former Lagos State governor.

Metuh said, “the APC Presidential candidate, General Buhari is merely a front for Alhaji Tinubu to whom he has already surrendered his powers and first official assignment of choosing a running mate.

“This development clearly confirms that General Buhari is not in charge, may have been compromised and willing to be appropriated. In fact, patriotic Nigerians from across the six geo-political zones are now embarrassed that General Buhari is playing a godson to Alhaji Tinubu.

“In surrendering his prerogative of choosing his running mate, General Buhari has confirmed that he is being appropriated and compromised to serve a personal and narrow group interest of a cabal on whose ticket he emerged as the presidential candidate.

“This APC cabal under the command of Tinubu tampered with all the rules of their party to achieve their selfish agenda of planting surrogates in all strategic positions to enable Tinubu expand his economic and political frontiers the way and manner he did in Lagos state.

“Therefore a vote for General Buhari in the forthcoming presidential election is clearly a vote for Tinubu, his political and economic interests.

“Indeed, the possible calculation of this cabal, if they ever get to power, is to choke-up General Buhari and ultimately frustrate him out of office thereby allowing Tinubu to have total control of the economic and political interests of the nation.

“Therefore the question the citizens want answered remains, ‘is Tinubu the face of the so-called change the APC wants to bequeath to Nigerians?

“The APC and its leadership have clearly shown that to them, national interest is secondary to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s business interests, little wonder many are now calling APC ASIWAJU’S PERSONAL CONSORTIUM.”

Credit: Vanguard Nigeria

Jonathan Set to Face APC Candidate on Debate, Says PDP

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The Peoples Demo­cratic Party, PDP, has challenged the All Progressive Congress, APC, to an issue based de­bate between its presiden­tial candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan with the duo of General Muham­madu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar.

The party said it was high time presidential de­bates are taken to a high level of intellectual excur­sion pin with the future of the country along the lines of development, peace and stability from which the electorate can make an in­formed decision.

National Publicity Secre­tary of the Peoples Demo­cratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, who said this on Tuesday while addressing the press in his office at Nation­al Secretariat of the party in Abuja also boasted that President Jonathan will de­feat combine efforts of all APC aspirants.

The PDP said it was pre­pared to engage all the can­didates of the opposition individually and collectively to a debate on performance-based contest because they have a well prepared candi­date for the election in 2015. The party said it is field­ing a good product that has performed and has made their work easier to present him to the public for accep­tance.

The party said the presi­dent is the most suitable can­didate in the lot that would be seeking the election in 2015. Metuh said: “We have a very good product to sell to Nigerians. GEJ will win the 2015 presidential poll based on his popularity. We are today sending notice to the opposition party, the APC to expect a crushing defeat at the poll,’’ he said.

“In view of our confidence, preparedness and the popu­larity of our candidate, we declare and urge the APC to put forward its two frontline aspirants in one pot as joint presidential candidates with their collective cre­dentials and followership to face our president.For us in the PDP, we are certain that with the grassroot support and love we enjoy from Nigerians across board, jonathan will secure an emphatic victory against any presidential candidate of the APC or all the candidates put together as one.Let us elevate the con­duct of this election. We will base it on who is best for this country in terms of unity of this nation, who is best to stabilise our public policy,who is best to lead us to prosperity. On those three and other issues we will defeat whoever is the candidate of the APC”.

Credit: National Mirror

PDP Calms the Tides, Sells Forms to Others

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Following the denial of nomination forms to some PDP presidential aspirants, ruling party, People’s Democratic Party, PDP,  in a two-paragraph statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, urged all those who have paid for the Expression of Interest and nomination forms to visit the party’s National Secretariat to pick their forms.

Metuh, against his earlier stand said that sale of forms for aspirants closes on Thursday this week. He said, “The Peoples Democratic Party wishes to inform all aspirants to all positions for the 2015 general elections that the deadline for the purchase and collection of all nomination forms has been extended to Thursday, 6th November 2014. All aspirants who paid for nomination forms, including the Presidential Form but yet to collect same, should come to the PDP National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja with verifiable evidence of payment for purposes of collection of their forms.”

The party had also said after the endorsement through Chief Metuh that all law abiding members of the party must adhere strictly to the decision of PDP by not picking presidential nomination forms against the decision of the organs of the party.