2019 Presidency: PDP lambasts Buhari, APC for attacking Atiku over Dubai strategic meeting

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has lambasted the Presidency and
the All Progressives Congress, APC, for attacking its Presidential
candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for holding a strategic meeting in Dubai.

PDP said the attack of the Presidency and the APC over the strategy
meeting by Abubakar was "defeatist and a clear sign that they are
already petrified ahead of the 2019 electoral contest."

In a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the opposition
party observed that since the emergence of the former Vice President
as its Presidential candidate, APC and the Presidency had abandoned
governance for smear campaign.

The statement reads: "Since the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as PDP
Presidential candidate, the panic-stricken Buhari Presidency and the
APC have abandoned governance for smear campaign and now fret over the
strategy meetings because they know that the outcome will dismount
their incompetent, deceitful and disconnected administration.

"APC is panicking over our strategy meetings because it did not only
fail to deliver on the promises it made in the past, but is also
completely bereft of ideas required to solve the problems it caused,
even as it knows that it cannot drive our country in this 21st
century.

"Is it not ludicrous that the APC has become so disoriented that it is
now issuing statements about the venue of our meetings which does not
offend any section of our laws, and for which it has now rented itself
to lies and spurious allegations?

"By its statement, the APC has demonstrated its confusion, lack of
organization and tact to manage itself and the responsibilities of
governance; the very reason our country has been in dire strait since
the last three and half years of the Buhari administration.

"Moreover, the APC and its Presidential candidate, President Muhammadu
Buhari are entangled in enough personal and collective crisis and we
counsel them to face their problems instead of dabbling into the issue
of venue for our meetings.

"If President Buhari and the APC had sat down to draw up strategies
for governance, our nation would not be facing the economic, social
and security woes that have brought her to its knees in the last three
and half years

"The PDP and our Presidential candidate will therefore not allow a
dysfunctional and rejected party like the APC to distract us from our
partnership with Nigerians in the all-important mission to remove the
incompetent administration of President Buhari.

"Finally, the APC should know that it is fighting a lost battle as
Nigerians are with our candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and they know that
he will not engage in anything illicit."