The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) will meet with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta on Saturday, July 14, to seek advice on how to achieve victory in the 2019 polls and beat incumbent Muhammadu Buhari.
The opposition party said it needed Obasanjo’s experience and advice on how to defeat President Buhari in 2019.
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The national chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, made this known in Abeokuta while addressing journalists after a meeting between the executive members of the party in Ogun and the PDP NWC, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
The PDP chairman who described Obasanjo as a “warrior” who had fought many battles, explained that the consultation had become necessary to get direction from the former president and tap from his wealth of experience.
Despite explanations by the federal government on how the recovered Abacha loot will be spent, Secondus picked holes in its management, alleging it was being arbitrarily distributed instead of being budgeted for.
The disbursement of the money to poor and vulnerable Nigerians, according to the vice president, will begin this July. Maryam Uwais, who heads the Social Investment Programme of the federal government explained recently that the federal government and the World Bank had signed an agreement to use the money to fund the SIP.
According to Uwais, 18 states, which have been enrolled, will benefit from the programme. They are Niger, Kogi, Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Kwara, Cross River, Bauchi, Jigawa, Gombe, Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Nasarawa and Anambra.
The remaining 18 states have been excluded because the state governments had not put in place the appropriate platform through which to implement the programme. But Secondus insisted that the ruling party is corrupt. He said: “Mother of all corruption is happening under Buhari’s government.
The party has however expressed confidence that its candidate will win the Ekiti governorship election
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