zonal rally of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Owerri, Imo
state capital, as a "mockery on President Muhammadu Buhari" by the
members of his party.
PDP claimed that Nigerians had a "comic relief as speaker after
speaker made a mockery of the president by ascribing non-existent
projects, as well as those initiated by others, particularly, the PDP,
to him in furtherance of APC's renewed attempt to beguile Nigerians
ahead of 2019 general elections."
In a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the opposition
party alleged that the "rented crowd" expressed vote of confidence on
the ill-performed President and his party.
The statement reads, "Even the rented crowd showed and expressed a
vote of no confidence on the ill-performed President and his party, as
they refused to brandish the now famished APC brooms or respond to the
party's slogan, a development that signposts the rejection of the APC
in the zone and of course, in other parts of our nation.
"Is it not pathetic for President Buhari or the APC to, in anyway,
think that they can suddenly enchant the people of the Southeast by
false claims like those made about the Second Niger Bridge,
Enugu-Onitsha Express way, Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu, among other
projects, when the reality in the zone remains a bold testament of
maltreatment, official disdain and government's insensitivity?
"Is it not also a height of foolery and political delusion for APC to
think that the people of the southeast will suddenly churn out five
million votes and deliver same to a party that overtly relegated them
as mere "five percent"?
"Worse still, all the APC leaders, who spoke at the rally, were all
ill at ease, had no clear message, but dwelt only on empty
sloganeering without regard to the sensibilities of the people, who
had been subjected to the worst kind of relegation by their party in
the last three years.
"It will be instructive for the APC to accept the fact that the
Southeast zone remains the stronghold of the PDP and no amount of
hollow grandstanding by the fractious APC and its rejected leaders can
detract from that fact."
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