Don’t sell your future, Nigerians told
Presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has charged Nigerians not to sell their future by succumbing to alleged moves by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to buy their permanent voter cards (PVCs) for as little as N10.
Atiku made the call in Ilorin, Kwara, Wednesday, when his campaign trail moved to the North-central state.
Chastising the APC for failing to fulfill its promises to Nigerians since 2015 at the North-central zonal rally of the PDP, Atiku advised Nigerians not to allow APC humiliate them by buying their PVCs.
Thisday reports that, as Atiku spoke in Ilorin, the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), the umbrella body of about 45 major opposition parties, boosted his chance in the presidential race when it announced the former vice president as the consensus candidate of the opposition in the February 2019 election.
Atiku spoke to an excited huge crowd, saying it was time to return Nigeria to the PDP because the best years of the country were when the PDP governed the country.
He said, “Today, we have listened to the failures of the APC government since 2015 till today. There is nothing they have not promised us; they promised us security, jobs and better economy, they failed.
“In terms of corruption, Nigeria is worse off today than we were in 2014. In terms of economy, we are the poorest country in the world today. In terms of insecurity, we are the most insecure than at any other time in history.
“This is what the APC is doing. They are buying PVCs. They will come to you and give you N10, N20, N50 to buy your PVC. They are buying your future.”
Warning Nigerians against selling their PVCs, Atiku noted that APC would use it against them.
Atiku told them, “Whatever they have promised, they failed. It is time for you people to return this country to PDP because the best years of this country were when the PDP was governing our country from 1999 to 2015,” he said.
Also speaking at the rally, the Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, and Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, lamented that in 2015, security challenges in the country was limited to the North-east, saying the security challenges have since escalated and spread to North-west and even North-central.
He added that the current administration has not only failed in the fight against corruption, but has failed to tackle security and fight poverty and hunger.
“We must find a president that can address the issue of security in this country; but more importantly, we must find a president that will address the economy because the hunger is serious today in Nigeria,” Saraki said.
