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Buhari's visit: Plateau PDP in panic
mode says Dati
By Lovins Yakubu
January 17, 2019
The Plateau
state Commissioner of Information and Communication, Yakubu Dati has said that the main opposition in the
state, the Peoples Democratic Party was already in a panic mode for the
scheduled visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to the Jos on Saturday.
The
Commissioner, in a statement which a copy was made available to African Drum reads
in parts “It is with delight we note how the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in
Plateau State has entered into a panic mode 48 hours before the scheduled visit
of President Muhammadu Buhari to Plateau State for the presidential rally.
“While we are
not surprised by the reaction of the PDP, we find it appropriate to further
aggravate their plight by stating the people of Plateau are not oblivious of
the obvious benefits of the president's intended visit to the state and they
have long made up their minds to give him a rousing welcome not minding a terse
and incoherent statement from a pack of envious and desperate politicians”.
Dati
stated that the PDP was scared that President Buhari’s visit will further
expose it as a vacuous assemblage of spent political forces seeking for
relevance and may open the eyes of their financiers about claims to popularity.
“We also
find the call by the PDP on Mr. President to inspect the projects executed
by the state government and which he commissioned as counter-intuitive as it
will further project the laudable works of this administration and the pains it
has taken to redeem some of the works abandoned by the last administration in
the state.
“The PDP
should know by now that the APC unlike the PDP does not thrive on lies and make
believe. APC policies and projects are guided by sincere high sense of decency
and commitment to alleviating the suffering visited on the people by the past
administration”.
The
statement further stated that Governor Lalong has not only consolidated on his
achievements since the historic visit of Mr. President where he commissioned
many laudable projects but has indeed opened a new vista to the transformation
of the state, known as the legacy projects and which work is in
progress and at different levels of completion.
“Perhaps, we
should disclose to the PDP at this stage that long before they came up with the
call on Mr. President to ‘inspect’ the ‘projects’ it has been the sincere hope
of the APC administration in Plateau that Mr. President will not only stay for
the period of the rally but will have the time to stay so that
Governor Lalong can take him round the Legacy Projects to see for himself what
is being done for the people of Plateau.
“It is our
hope that if Mr. President grants that request that Governor Lalong will be
able to show him that the confidence he has on his ability to transform Plateau
is not misplaced as he will see firsthand how schools have been transformed,
IDPS resettled, health facilities built and roads constructed as opposed to the
white elephant projects of the previous administration.
“This we
believe will offer Mr. President the opportunity to interact with the people of
the state and confirm for himself how enduring peace has
returned to the state and how civil servants, teachers and other
workers have been receiving their salaries promptly” stated the statement
It added
that the PDP is aware that President Buhari is a crowd puller any day and afraid
that when he comes to Jos will pull four times more crowd than what it called ‘motley
gathering’ that graced their event.
“That is why
they have started saying that the APC is trying to hire crowd from other
states. Crowd hiring and other acts of public deception are in the genes of the
PDP that is why they imagine others can also think in that direction. But I
will like to assure the PDP that we do not have such tendencies hence such
criminal acts do not cross our minds.
“It is on
record that no single political leader In Nigeria has been able to pull the
kind of crowd our presidential candidate does. So why should anybody waste
resources and efforts trying to do achieve what naturally comes to the
president.
“The PDP
should know that the APC is a different party and does engage in such
unwholesome practices that the PDP is known for.
“Going by
the number of people that voted for Lalong in 2015, and the number that voted
for the APC in the last local government elections, coupled with the hundreds
of thousands that have defected to the APC, we do not need to resort to the
desperate tactics of the PDP to pull crowd.
The
statement stated that the APC is already on ground and that it’s the party to
beat on the Plateau.
“If there is
any party that the people of Plateau have rejected, it is the PDP which has
lost all elections since the formation of the APC.
Governor
Lalong is even more confident about winning elections now seeing that the PDP
candidate has lost confidence in himself and has sent a message to the people
of Plateau that he is not ready for the task of governance by falling asleep at
all occasions.
“The good
people of Plateau have taken note of this and are prepared to assist the PDP
candidate in the best way they can and have resolved that in the next
elections, they would not be harsh to him but will give him the opportunity to
go and do what he deserves, sleep; by not voting him so as to go on with his
favourite pastime. The PDP have realized this and that is why they are now
clutching at straws with all sorts of laughable allegations.”
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