Hehehe...Barely a week to the presidential election, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, has predicted that the party’s presidential candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan, will not get a landslide victory even though he expressed optimism that the party would win.
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In a statement signed by his chief press secretary, Tony Amadi, yesterday, Mu’azu also gave the assurance that this administration will declare a marshal plan to rebuild the North East geopolitical zone mainly affected by Boko Haram attacks, if re-elected.
Fidelis Chidi blog recalls that Jonathan had also admitted, during a recent television programme, that the March 28 election would be more challenging for him than the one of 2011, which he won to assume office for the current term.
There is no doubt that Jonathan and his main rival, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), are running a close campaign this time around, making it difficult for pundits to predict the winner.
The statement read in part: “While I do not see a landslide victory coming, I am convinced that our party will perform creditably in the South West and the North of Nigeria and elsewhere, in all the elections this year because the evidence is clear that despite our travails at the beginning, we have done very well over the past 15 years of our nascent democracy since 1999, to record victory. Those who disbelieve our resilience will be surprised, for victory is ours.
“Our major concern in the PDP is not to allow our country to be hijacked by desperados masquerading as purveyors of good governance who promise heaven and earth to the people in the name of ‘Change’ without any intention of fulfilling their election promises.”
Mu’azu added that after three weeks of town hall meetings, PDP was inching its way to victory ahead of the election.
“We shall continue this interactive engagement with Nigerians until March 26 when campaigns officially end before the March 28 presidential elections, presenting our score card in government, our programmes in the next four years to 2019, using the town hall format and meeting our revered traditional rulers,” he stated.
Speaking on the party’s plan for the troubled North East, Mu’azu said, “The PDP has a special plan that will see them play more roles in government in the near future via the instrument of the constitution. We believe that the traditional institution is crucially important to the peace, harmony and progress of our fatherland.
“Our party has this programme on the top of our agenda in the next four years. That will be the right way to wipe away the scars of war among the people of that area.”
The PDP chairman blamed the APC for the media report that he had fallen out with President Goodluck Jonathan, and said the insinuation was not distracting the party from its mission.
“We are going around the country in search of undecided voters, who are the final battle ground where the election will be won or lost. The APC can continue to stir the rumour mills into believing that Mr. President and myself are in dispute, but we are very serious about winning a fourth presidential election and, Insha Allah, we shall make it.”
Mu’azu absent at Yobe presidential campaign
Meanwhile, Mu’azu did not follow President Goodluck Jonathan to the Yobe State presidential campaign rally yesterday.
PDP deputy national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, who stood in for him, presented the party’s flag to the governorship candidate, Ambassador Maina Waziri.
Explaining his absence to the Emir of Damaturu, the president said Mu’azu had travelled to Dubai to attend to his sick mother.
During their visit to the emir’s palace, Jonathan asked the PDP presidential campaign director-general, Amadu Ali, to speak on his behalf.
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