By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North
The Peoples Democratic Party National Chairman, Ahmed Adamu Muazu, said yesterday, that the President Goodluck Jonathan deserves a second term ticket because of the enormous work he had done to put Nigeria on a sound track.
Muazu, in a statement in Abuja last night, accused the rival All Progressives Congress, APC, of engaging in unnecessary propaganda to win elections at all costs.
In the statement, entitled, ‘The emptiness of APC propaganda,’ and signed by his media aide, Tony Amadi, Muazu said the APC did not need to manufacture non-existing issues in a bid to bring down the PDP since it had done enough to win the 2015 elections.
Muazu said: “There is no need to spin and manufacture propaganda to win elections because the PDP has done a lot to deserve re-election of the President in the 2015 elections next month. Our nearest rivals are not only spinning out of control but have succeeded in elevating propaganda into an art to try and win at all costs.
“All the Peoples Democratic Party has to do is state the facts of our achievements on the ground over and over as they stand because Nigerian voters are not dumb or silly. They know that propaganda does not win votes; they only complicate matters because sooner than later, their propaganda and lies will fall flat on their faces.
“The Nigerian electorate know that leopards don’t change their skin over-night. The change Nigerians need is a change in their standard of living, transformation of the basic infrastructure to better roads, better bridges, and better educational standard, better management of the economy as well as better health infrastructure which make us a better country and not change to a political party just to achieve their personal desires
“Those All Progressives Congress politicians who consistently point an accusing finger at the Peoples Democratic Party for failing to make a difference in the governance of Nigeria over the past 15 years must know that they share more of the blame for the so-called ‘incompetence and cluelessness.’ This is because as they point one finger at the PDP, four of their fingers are pointing back at their APC.
“How can the gang of five governors who left the PDP in 2013 extricate themselves from those accusations when they were all part of the decision making organs of the party? For the better part of the eight or four years they governed Rivers, Sokoto, Kano, Adamawa and Kwara, they executed PDP manifesto before they decamped to join the All Progressives Congress where they have continued to execute PDP blue-print for success.
“Nigerians should ask Governor Amaechi if he has executed any other manifesto other than those of the PDP even after he left the party. Ask Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso whether his infrastructure successes were not planned by PDP government that he headed in Kano State?
“Has Sokoto’s Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko done any work that was not originated by the PDP government through which he came to power?
“Let the All Propaganda Congress, APC, continue their folly as Nigerians are no fools. We all know their empty game-plan, the result which will dawn on them after Nigerians cast their votes on February 14, 2015. They will then turn around to say that PDP has massively rigged the elections.
They will fail in their bid to scuttle PDP’s bid for a historic fourth presidential election victory,” Muazu predicted.