Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), has said that Nigeria will be in trouble if Peoples Democratic Party is allowed to rule for another four years.
Buhari made this statement while receiving a delegation of members of the Peoples Democratic Movement in his office.
The PDM led by its national chairman, Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim adopted him as their candidate for the 2015 presidential election.
Buhari said “What you have said summarises the problems of this country. You have looked carefully and found out that this year, 2015, whichever way politicians and the elite look at it, is another time or watershed in our political system.
“If we get it wrong this time, and allow the PDP to go again for the next four years, this country is going to be in trouble. Right now, with the unfortunate event of crumbling oil price, the economy is really in a mess.
“Coupled with insecurity, it is only a country like Nigeria that can survive and get out of this situation we are in. A lot of countries will just disappear either from the map or from the political equation of nation states. But Nigerians are so resilient to the extent that there are international personalities who could not understand why Nigeria still exists.
“There was a former UN Secretary General who said that if he retires, he will go to Nigeria because, according to him, what is happening to Nigeria, no other country can go through it and survive.
“The 16 years of the PDP has been hell. Remember that we use to have Nigeria Airways, Nigeria Railways, Nigeria Shipping Line. Try and find out how much we have spent on power in the last 16 years from the vast resources we accumulate over that period because the price of oil went up to 142 dollars per barrel.
“What did we do with that money? We said that we paid debts with billions of Naira. If that amount was put into infrastructure such as power, roads, railways, farming etc, the amount of job it will create would be enormous.
“Today, some of our youths have become danger to the society because of lack of jobs. I hope the elite will properly document these 16 years as presenting the worst leadership this country has ever witnessed.”
Reacting to the Certificate saga, Buhari said “well, I am not surprised. This is Nigeria. If people are serious about this issue, they ought to have listened to the legal adviser of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
“INEC said it has got all the necessary documents, so, anybody who has any different view should go to court. I think they have gone to court, so let them remain there.”
Meanwhile the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai during an Organised Private Sector’s interactive session in Kaduna said that Buhari will inherit a broken economy.
El-Rufai said “General Muhammadu Buhari will be inheriting a broken economy like he did in 1983, just like I am going to likely inherit a bankrupt state when we take over power.”
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