Kwanwanso, Atiku have abandoned Buhari, says PDP

 Kwanwanso, Atiku have abandoned Buhari, says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party says leaders of the All Progressives Congress have continued to betray their inner aversion towards the candidacy of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and have abandoned his campaigns for the February 14 presidential election.

The PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh, in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, said most leaders of the APC did not believe in the personality of Buhari, resulting in flip-flops and double standards that have been the fate of his presidential campaign.

Metuh said key APC leaders such as former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar; Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso; and presidential aspirant, Sam Nda-Isaiah, have since abandoned Buhari.

But the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation dismissed as utterly false and ridiculous the claims by the ruling PDP.

A statement by the Director of Media and Publicity of the campaign, Garba Shehu, stated that there was no iota of truth in the claim that Atiku or other party stalwarts have distanced themselves from the campaign.

According to the statement, contrary to the deliberate falsehood being peddled by PDP, the former vice president is currently out of the country for medical examination, and that he would be actively involved in the campaign once he is back to the country from next week.

Shehu emphasised that Atiku’s commitment to the campaign in Adamawa State and the nation “is total” and that “no amount of PDP’s desperate tactics of deliberate falsehoods would break the unity of the APC leaders.”

The statement said the PDP allegation was a figment of their own imagination in order to weaken the cohesion within the opposition members, adding that the “ruling party is increasingly nervous as the February 14 elections approaches.”