PDP Reacts To IBB’s Statement On Buhari

PDP Reacts To IBB's Statement On Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari. Picture: NAN

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says ex-military president Ibrahim Babangida’s counsel to President Muhammadu Buhari is in line with the need for “a truly Nigerian President.”

Babangida’s media aide Kassim Afegbua had on Sunday issued a statement in which his principal advised Buhari against seeking another term in office.

But Babangida later disowned the statement, saying he had easy access to Buhari and that where necessary, he would speak to him in camera, not resorting to open letter.

And reacting to the statement released by Afegbua, the PDP said the time was right for Nigerians to shun selfishness and rebuild the country.

“It is now obvious to all that the time has come for all Nigerians to jettison all personal interests and divisive tendencies and rally forces under a truly national platform as now embodied in the PDP to rescue our dear nation from total collapse,” it said in a statement.

“In line with the new consensus for the election of a truly Nigerian President in 2019, the repositioned PDP is completely open as the epicenter of the much desired new broad-based political engagement of all Nigerians in their aspirations irrespective of creed, tribe or class. ”

In addition, the PDP said: “The repositioned PDP presents that credible platform, re-engineered with best democratic standards for unhindered accommodation of all interests from all parts of the country in our collective search for a new beginning.

“We therefore urge all Nigerians, particularly our leaders across board, to join forces with the PDP to once again return the nation to its pride of place as a thriving economy and a truly democratic nation come 2019.”

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