A former
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Ahmadu Ali has seen
his party as a contending force for power in 2019, but said Nigerians will vote
for President Muhammadu Buhari if he decides to present himself for another
term in office.
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| Senator Ahmadu Ali |
He stated that
though Nigerians are currently criticising Buhari over his performance in
office so far, they will be singing his praise a year from now as they would
have forgotten their present complaints by then.
Speaking with
Saturday Sun, the Director-General of the Goodluck Jonathan/Mohammed Sambo
Presidential Campaign Organisation in 2015, said: “Buhari’s performance that
you are criticizing now, give him another year, you will be singing his praise.
“As far as
Nigeria is concerned, they have forgotten the past, they will vote for him
unless he is not standing. If Buhari is standing in 2019, people will vote for
him.”
Explaining why
he sees the possibility of Buhari’s victory in 2019 despite the present cries
of Nigerians about hardship, Ali said: “in order to get something good, you
have to do a radical surgery, that radical surgery the pain is what we are
suffering from; I am telling you when the pains heal and we start enjoying the
surgery that was put in place, we will be ready to vote again if it is the same
Buhari because they will say if things go wrong, he knows how to fix it.”
Ali, who noted
that his party will be up against an uphill task if Buhari “continues to
perform well and he wants to come back”, stated that such does not mean the PDP
cannot defeat the President, adding that, “after all he defeated us so we
should be able to defeat him.”
He went on to
blame the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for the current leadership
squabble in the PDP, stressing that their plan is to disorganize the opposition
so the party in power can have peace.
He continued
that the current crisis rocking the former ruling party was also caused by
western powers who are envious of PDP’s record of governing Nigeria for 16
uninterrupted years.
The former
minister stated that the forces, who he called enemy outside Nigeria, believe
that leaving the PDP to continue in power after 16 years, will make it grow
into an impossible party which cannot be manipulated.
His words, “The
PDP imbroglio is most unfortunate but it is all within the realm of politics.
If APC finds that they are not performing excellently well and we who can claim
to be experts in running the country for 16 years are now outside government
and we keep criticizing, the best thing is to find a way of disorganising us
and they succeeded in disorganising us.
“And again our
friends, the enemy outside Nigeria who believed that the PDP has broken such a
record in the governance of Nigeria… 16 years uninterrupted… one political
party… it has never happened in Nigeria.
“So they
believed that leaving the PDP to continue in that run, they will end up to
become an impossible party that they cannot manipulate, like the Gulf Party of
the Arabs where they had to destroy Saddam and everybody to disorganize the
region,” the ex-PDP chairman said.
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Source: Daily Post
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