The Director of Strategic Communications for the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation, Festus Keyamo SAN, has explained why some former military generals and top politicians are allegedly ganging up against the president’s re-election bid.
He said their accusations against Buhari were for his rigidity, not corruption like the case of former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.
Keyamo made this known in an interview published by Saturday Sun.
The senior lawyer said:
It appears to me that this gang-up; this coming together is by deliberate design, and the deliberate design is that Nigerians have seen very clearly now those who do not like the anti-corruption posture of the president. I want you to be observant of most of their complaints against this man they are ganging up against; their complaint is about rigidity. In 2015, when the coalition came up against Jonathan it was about corruption, everybody knew it was the most corrupt government we have had, but this time, the cry of the gang up is rigidity.
Rigidity was the same complaint they had against him in 1985 when they overthrew him as the military head of state for fighting corruption. Nigerians now have a choice who to follow. On one hand, Nigerians can see all the people who have been the problems of this country from day one till now, and on the other side, is this one man, who has set himself against this system of lootocrats; this system of corruption since December 1983. So, this is the first time that Nigerians are having a very clear choice to make between this man, the masses, ordinary people of Nigeria on one side, and the so-called bourgeoisies standing on one side.
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