The Presidency has condemned the recent endorsement of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar by Influential socio-cultural bodies, including Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Northern Elders’ Forum, Pan-Niger Delta Forum and the Middle Belt.
The group had on Sunday at Ladi Kwali Hall, Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, threw their weights behind Atiku ahead of the February 16 presidential election.
Reacting to the development, the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Garba Shehu in a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday described endorsement by the socio-cultural groups as irrelevant. He maintained that the ‘gang up’ by these socio-cultural group will have no effect on Buhari being re-elected in Feb. 16, just like in 2015.
“The Peoples Democratic Party is hiding in the bunker of ethnicity to avoid their inevitable defeat but that won’t change anything. “The current scenario resembles efforts to stop Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 by the same characters.
“It is an effort to repeat the old experiment that failed is 2015. They failed to stop him from coming to power in 2015 and they will fail yet again on February 16th.
“If all these groups are ganging up against one person, that is President Buhari, it tells you who is the formidable candidate in the election. This gang up they forged, one more time will change nothing. It is for the people to decide.”
