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By Nasir Kura
National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, said n Thursday that Nigerians are not willing to elect a bad product like the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election.
Fielding from State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja ahead of Friday’s commencement of the presidential campaign in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, Oshiomhole said the PDP behaved badly while in power forcing Nigerians to end its 16-year rule in 2015.
He said despite the apology by the national chairman of the party, Mr. Uche Secondus, Nigerians have still not accepted the apology.
“If PDP was doing well after 16 years, they wanted to do for 60, but they were terminated. No employer will recall an employee dismissed due to gross misconduct and abuse of finances, you don’t recall the employee.
“I remember that the best Secondus had to say was that he was apologizing to Nigerians and I have not heard anybody say they have accepted the apology and people who have robbed you don’t apologize and say allow me back into your store room, you don’t do that.
“So, we are certain that even as we can’t talk of any perfect situation, nothing can make Nigerians get so confused as to think that yesterday there was mismanage and those who were at the heart of that mismanagement can be entrusted with providing leadership for tomorrow.
“PDP is just not an option particularly when their candidate is not a new face, there is basis for benefit of the doubt, you can give benefit of the doubt to a stranger not to someone who was at the heart, perhaps one of the most powerful Vice President we have ever had. So, I am clear that Nigeria will never ever have basis to give PDP the benefit of the doubt,” he said.
On the presidential campaign, Oshiomhole said: “Campaigns will start tomorrow (Friday) in Uyo, we are flagging off with the South South and it is going to be the first rally of the President and taking place in the South South is particularly significant. From all the feelers we have I think the people of Uyo and Akwa Ibom state are anxious to receive Mr. President and to hear the message. We are all in good mood.”
