A Peoples Democratic Party presidential aspirant, Alhaji Tanimu Turaki, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari does not deserve to get any vote from the South East geo-political zone in the 2019 general elections.
Turaki stated this in Umuahia while addressing delegates of the party from Abia State to the forthcoming national convention.
He said that the zone had suffered the worst marginalisation and neglect since 1999 under the Buhari administration.
He accused the President of lopsided appointments and biased infrastructural development against both the zone and the people.
He lamented that the situation had become a source of concern to every well-meaning Nigerian.
Turuaki described Buhari as a despot under whose leadership the country had had the highest incidents of wanton destruction of lives and property, kidnapping, armed robbery, farmers/herders’ clashes and sectarian
crises.
He also blamed past military administrations in the country for what he described “as sandwiching of the people of the SouthEast geo-political zone with their large population into five states while the others have six and the North West, seven.”
The former minister of Special Duties and later of Labour and Productivity under former President Goodluck Jonathan, promised to address the issues as soon as he’s sworn into office, if he wins the 2019 election.
He noted that with the resurgence of the PDP following the defection of some members of the All Progressive Congress at the National Assembly, there was hope that the party would return to power in
2019.
Insisting that he had the wherewithal and connections to reposition the country for greater achievements, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria added that any vote for him in the election would mark an end to the challenges.
In his contribution, the Director-General of his campaign organisation and former Adamawa State governor, Mr. Boni Haruna, told the delegates to give the presidential aspirant their mandate to enable him to win the election for the party.
Similarly, the Kebbi State Chairman of the party, Alhaji Haruna Saidu, who was on the entourage, maintained that Turaki was one aspirant who could surmount any obstacle on his way to winning the election.
Receiving the entourage, his Abia State counterpart, Chief Johnson Onigbo, reiterated the need for the party to present only credible candidates at all levels for the election to ensure total victory.
