Augustine Osayande
08:55 18/06/2015
Abuja - The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned
calls for President Muhammadu Buhari to resign because of comments over
his age.
APC described the call by the so-called PDP Media Watchdog as “a product of poor thinking and deliberate mischief.”
APC
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the group had
quoted Buhari’s comments while he was in South Africa, of of context.
“What
President Buhari was saying, which was lost on those who issued that
jejune statement, is that only his love and passion for the country
could have made him, at his age, to come out of retirement to seek the
office of President, over 30 years after he presided over the affairs of
the country,” said Mohammed.
He
argued for 16 years, Nigerians gave the People’s Democratic Party the
benefit of the doubt to move the country forward, but instead, the party
put Nigeria in “reverse gear at a high speed, spinning it towards a
doomsday that was only averted when Nigerians showed the PDP the red
card.”
“This is what necessitated President Buhari to continuously
seek the country's highest political office, so he can help put the
country on a forward march again. Nothing else matters, not for him the
excitement of an office he previously held and the quest for personal
accomplishment,”
Mohammed said.
Mohammed said if the country
had been well-managed, Buhari would not, at 72, travelling the world
seeking solutions to Nigeria's problems.
He said within three
weeks of his inauguration, Buhari had succeeded in returning Nigeria to
the comity of nations, to such an extent that world leaders were eager
to engage him on how to assist the country in key areas, including
security and the fight against corruption.
“Within three weeks of President Buhari's inauguration, he had done what the PDP government could not do in six years.”
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