‘Lawmakers’ defection not a threat to Buhari’s popularity’

The Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO), has said the defection of some Senators and House of Representative members from the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) to the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has not affected the popularity of President Muhammadu Buhari in next year’s elections.

The National Coordinator, BCO, Danladi Pasali, said analysis of the defected lawmakers showed that most of them took the decision to save their political ambitions as a result of their grievances at the grassroots.

Pasali said president Buhari was already popular among the masses with or without the lawmakers.

He said no serious politician could dump the President or the ruling party at this particular moment.

Pasali said: “All of those that decamped to PDP need Buhari in their political career more than the way Buhari needs them. Except few among them, the majority of them rode on the wave of popularity of His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 to secure their mandates. So for us at the BCO, we regard this as great political miscalculation and suicide they committed.”

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“We see this as a good omen. We as the BCO, we are celebrating. In most cases you can’t make progress if you have an enemy within, because he will pretend to be with you, but in reality he is using the relationship to bring you down.

“We urged the President to be cautious of those types of politicians, because many of such people are still within the party, but Almighty God will reveal them one after another, very soon.

“The true is that when somebody feels that he or she has followers, 2019 is coming, we know that as far as we are concern the issue of Kwankwaso and all of the affected lawmakers are nonentity. Look at the arithmetic on how Buhari was contesting elections since 2007, most of them were not with him but he always pooled millions of votes at elections because he is the man of the masses.

“The masses of this country know what Mr President stands for, and they tested the good governance that they never witness before in terms of infrastructural development in the area of roads, rails, agriculture, health, educations and employment generation. These are the yardstick for economic prosperities not stealing money and share it to people without providing any goodies to the people as it used to happen during the PDP 16 years in office.”

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