Former
governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, on Thursday said there will be
trouble if the ruling All Progressive Congress rigs the 2019 general election.
He said
Nigerians and the international community are anticipating an excellent
election devoid of rigging.
Mr Aliyu
stated this in Dutse, Jigawa State capital, shortly after he presented party
flags to some Peoples Democratic Party candidates in the state.
He said
Nigerians are now wiser because of the evolution of new media, ”hence, rigging
will be a difficult task”.
He also
called out President Muhammadu Buhari over recent allegations that his (Buhari)
family owns shares in Keystone Bank and 9Mobile saying ”modern technology would
reveal if this is true”.
He also said
the PDP government performed better than the current APC government while in
office.
“In every
change of government, the newcomers will tell you that the previous
administration didn’t perform well, the idea was to castigate, justify so as to
legitimise,” he said. ”PDP for 16 years established the foundation for the
development of this country.”
He said the
APC administration has taken Nigeria back to the ”preliminary level of 1984-85s
where things started deteriorating”.
“PDP is more
familiar with the pattern, understand the democracy, constitution and the
people of Nigeria. Nigerians now have an opportunity to compare and contrast
between political parties that have served the people,” Mr Aliyu said.
In his
remarks, at the event, a former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, said the
APC would not have come into existence without the ‘help’ of the PDP.
”In 2014,
APC was a bad woman who cannot (could not) conceive but with the help of PDP,
they were able to form a government,” he said.
“If you look
at the composition of APC in 2014, it’s only Bola Tinubu from the AC (Action
Congress); Ali Modu Sheriff, Ibrahim Shekarau from the ANPP (All Nigeria
Peoples Party); President Muhammadu Buhari, Buba Galadima from the CPC
(Congress for Progressive Change). These people couldn’t ‘deliver’ Nigeria.
They had to look for people from the PDP to come together to produce this
government,” he said.
Dignitaries
in the event included former governors of Kaduna and Niger states, Ahmed
Makarfi, Ramalan Yero and a PDP chieftain, Aminu Wali; politicians, Aminu
Ringim and Yarbaba Hadejia, among other dignitaries.
Comments