Fayose’s blackmail can’t stop Buhari –APC

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has said Governor Ayodele Fayose's alleged blackmail of its candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) cannot stop him from winning the presidential election.

It said the governor's criticism of Buhari, was driven by self-preservation over the governor's past misdeeds and not in the national interest.

According to the party, the governor is fighting the battle of his life that runs contrary to the general mood of the nation.

It advised him to concentrate his energy on how to ensure victory for PDP's candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan, instead of lecturing APC on why it should not field General Buhari as its candidate for the March 28 presidential election.

A statement by the state APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said Nigerians had made up their minds to have Buhari as their President, adding that, "No amount of blackmail and rhetoric fuelled by selfishness will change the course of change sweeping across the country."

Reminding Fayose that APC was not the same thing as PDP, Olatubosun said, "PDP has an agenda to kill all institutions of government as it is currently doing and make corruption a creed. Never in the history of this country have we recorded cases of frauds and scandals as we have today in Nigeria. These are the legacies that PDP can flaunt. Unfortunately, Fayose is equating PDP with Nigeria.

"Fayose has turned APC to a PDP affair. He said former President Olusegun Obasanjo imposed a sick man, the late Umaru Yar'Adua, on PDP in 2007 and President Yar'Adua died after two years in office. The question is; is Buhari in PDP and is he now being imposed by Obasanjo again? How does Buhari's old age threaten PDP's bid to rule for 60 years?

"Again, Fayose said he had a vision that Buhari will never be president. If he is sure of his vision, why is he breathless about Buhari's candidacy?"

Olatubosun noted that the governor was being hypocritical in his criticism of Buhari and the allegations he was raising over his health status, saying that his actions pointed to the fact that Buhari was the favoured candidate among a vast majority of Nigerians.