Buhari attacks PDP

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday described the leadership of the opposition People’s Democratic Party as drowning men who wouldn’t mind clutching at any straw for political survival.

Buhari, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the PDP’s decision to drag the All Progressives Congress and the Independent National Electoral Commission to the United Nations alleging plan to rig the 2019 general elections was not only laughable and puerile, but also demonstrated the level of desperation haunting the opposition leaders.

Shehu said by dragging the UN into its political propaganda, the PDP was indirectly suggesting that it was afraid to face the voters in 2019.

According to him, “rigging is PDP’s main area of core competence and its party leaders are drowning men who won’t mind clutching at any straw for political survival.”

He said President Muhammadu Buhari was passionately committed to free and fair elections in Nigeria “and for a man who joined forces with local and international observers to ensure a free and fair election which brought him to power in 2015, the president would under no circumstances tolerate any attempt to derail constitutional democracy.

“The outcome of the gubernatorial elections in Edo, Ondo and Anambra States stand as clear examples of President Buhari’s commitment to free and fair elections in the country, and Nigerians should indeed be wary of PDP’s desperate propaganda.