A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Rab’iu Musa Kwankwaso has said that Nigeria is in trouble caused by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in its three and half years in charge of the nation’s affairs.
Kwankwaso made the claim over the weekend in Sokoto, where he had gone to convince PDP state executives to support his candidacy in the October 5 presidential primary of the party.
The former Kano governor identified insecurity and unemployment as the greatest failure of the APC administration.
He assured the state party excos that the PDP was poised to wrest power from the APC in 2019.
Kwankwaso, who currently represents Kano Central senatorial district in the National Assembly, added that he has what it takes to defeat Buhari in the presidential election in 2019 if given the PDP’s ticket.
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He said, “Everybody knows that Nigeria is in trouble now than ever before. Over 100 Nigerians were killed in a single day, yet the president goes for holidays. Most young people in Nigeria are now jobless.
“We thought things were bad before now. However, we now have the opportunity to compare things ourselves. 2015 was better than what we have in Nigeria today.”
Also, Kwankwaso expressed confidence that the ruling party would lose the 2019 general election as the PDP lost in 2015 because the APC had repeated the same mistake that made the PDP lose.
He disclosed that the PDP ruled from 1999 to 2015 because it did not disenfranchise any candidate.
However, he said that the party lost in 2015 because it made the mistake of “printing only one presidential form”, which he said the APC has also done ahead of the 2019 election.