49 PDP Senators Declare Support For Buhari

 

According to The Cable, the 49 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers in the senate have declared their support for President Muhammadu Buhari.

 

This was contained in a statement made during a press conference at the National Assembly complex in Abuja on Thursday, 6th of August by the minority leader Senator Godswill Akpabio who was joined by 48 other PDP colleagues to pledge allegiance to Buhari. In the same vein, they complained their party was being victimised by the anti-corrption campaign.

 

Akpabio stated:

“The PDP senate caucus reiterates its support to Mr President Muhammadu Buhari and his quest to bring about a greater Nigeria,”

“The PDP senate caucus, despite its formidable strength, has resolved to offer only credible opposition that would lead to the building of a better Nigeria. The caucus will give him all the needed support to ensure his success as president.”

“But the PDP senate caucus notes the crusade against corruption undertaken by the APC-led federal government and hereby declares her support to rid Nigeria of corruption.

"The caucus is not happy with the current trend that seems to suggest that the war against corruption is selective and targeted at PDP stalwarts and states.

“The current war lacks transparency, fairness to all and appears to be aimed at political adversaries. It is on this ground that we condemn in particular what is happening in Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Abia states where election umpires are daily arrested, their families and associates hounded, and judicial officers involved in election tribunals intimidated and questioned using trumped up petitions bordering on corruption."

He ended his speech with disturbing reports about the operatives of the Department of State Security, DSS are coercing the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to produce doctored election materials to favour the candidates of the All Progressives Congress at the election tribunals. This he claims is totally unacceptable.