The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), commencing name-calling, has asked Nigerians not to vote for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, because he is “semi-illiterate.”
The characterization was made by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Prof. Wale Oladipo when he hosted leaders of the party in the diaspora at the party's headquarters in Abuja on Monday.
He described the APC as a political party that is not really ready to offer an alternative to the teeming masses of this country as its only agenda seems to be to see the departure of the PDP.
“But I know that God loves this country so much,” he said. “God has decided that this country will remain indivisible and has decided that this country will continue to wax stronger."
Oladipo vowed that Nigeria will not go back to 1983 where it will start doing trade by barter with Brazil.
"God has decreed it that we continue to pilot the affairs of this country and continue to implement the transformation agenda,” he stated.
He observed that the next election will be unlike previous elections because for the first time, the opposition has come together in the APC.
"They have passed through a motion and endorsed their perennial candidate. We have beaten him three times, we are going to beat him once again.
"The next election is going to be between darkness and light, it is going to be between a cross cosmopolitan highly-focused Ph.D holder and a semi-literate jakput,” he said, adding, "Nigeria cannot afford to go back, we will continue to move forward."
Oladipo urged the representatives of various chapters to understand that they will be called upon to enlighten Nigerians on the programmes of the PDP wherever they reside in the world.
"You will also be called upon to counter negative propaganda that the APC is making against our party and our country in different countries of this world.
"Of course, we are not perfect but our mission is perfect. We mean well for this country and we believe the country should continue to be one and that we should be a market-driven economy while at the same time, providing succor for the weak. "