President Goodluck Jonathan has said that he is not underrating the All Progressives Congress but they are grossly overrated and ahead of Saturday’s polls, the Peoples Democratic Party is fully ready.
The President made this statement in an interview with an online newspaper, The Cable.
He said “I don’t think Nigerians will make the mistake of voting for Buhari.
“Gen. Buhari, with due respect, is not the right option for Nigeria at this time. It is a gamble that is not worth taking.
“I may not be perfect as nobody is perfect. But I believe that come Saturday, the majority of Nigerian voters will choose me as the best candidate to lead the nation forward.
You should remember the Ekiti governorship election last year. Before the election, many people were saying APC would win by a landslide. But we in the PDP were busy mobilising the grassroots, going from village to village, from town to town.
“The result shocked everybody, apart from us at the PDP. I am not underrating APC, but I think they are grossly overrated.
“We shall meet on the field. That is where we will test our true strengths. We are fully ready. You will soon see.
“The real battleground is Lagos, and if you have been following events closely, the PDP is reborn in Lagos. Wait and see how Lagosians will vote.”
Meanwhile the President has also appealed to Northerners to vote for him.
In a letter titled, ‘My dear Arewa brothers and sisters’, which he personally signed, Jonathan said “I do understand that my first duty to you at this time is to rid the entire North of the menace of Boko Haram and secure your lives and property. You and I know that nothing in Nigeria’s past prepared us for the unprecedented reign of unmitigated terror, mayhem and destruction which these murderous terrorists have visited on parts of our country.
“The initial slowness in effectively responding to the threat was as a result of the asymmetrical nature of the war on terror and the need for us to properly equip our security agencies for the successful prosecution of the war.
“Given the recent successes recorded by our Armed Forces with your cooperation and patriotic support, the cooperation of our neighbours as well as the laudable gallantry of security agents, I am confident that in the shortest possible time, the menace of Boko Haram would have been eliminated for good.”