APC to Tukur: Only Nigerians can decide Jonahan’s fate in 2014

All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday, told the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, that only Nigerians could decide whether or not President Goodluck Jonathan would rule beyond 2015.

The APC said this in a statement issued in Abuja, by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, saying that his statement that the president would rule till 2019 was nothing but an empty boast aimed at ingratiating himself to the president.

The party also asked the PDP chairman to back-up his statement, that it was time for Nigerian youths to take over the reins of power, by first stepping down from his post to pave the way for the younger generation.

It reminded Tukur that one of his predecessors once boasted, in another euphoric moment, that the PDP would rule for 60 years, only for him to leave office in disgrace shortly thereafter.

According to the APC, there was nothing on ground to justify Tukur’s empty boast beyond the PDP’s rigging machine, which was again being oiled in readiness for 2015, going by the barefaced vote stealing and unbridled brigandage that the party exhibited in the recent bye-election in Delta Central Senatorial District.

“The PDP, which has presided over the affairs of Nigeria for the past 14 years, has only succeeded in pushing more people into poverty, with 112 million people now living below the poverty line and millions of children out of school.”

- Tribune

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