The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has said that the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is threatening to boycott the 2019 general election because Nigerians have rejected it.
He added that Nigerians rejected the PDP for 16 years of “absolute misrule” and the party’s life has therefore come to an end.
The APC chaitman made this known at the party secretariat in Abuja when the Chairman of the Osun State Primary Election Committee and Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, submitted the result of the election.
He described as false the allegations by PDP top players that the APC-led Federal Government was threatening them.
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Oshiomhole noted that the APC defeated them in 2015 while they still had everything going for them and so could not be threatening them now that they are a divided house.
The APC boss reaffirmed the party’s commitment to democracy, noting that democracy was not at the mercy of any political party.
He said, “Let me also use this opportunity to comment on what I read about… I saw the PDP chairman threatening that they may boycott the 2019 election.
“Now, when a rabbit, because I come from a village, when a rabbit in the afternoon jumps out of the hole not because the hunter has come to smoke it out and it is running, you know it has already seen its end.
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“But the truth is that we are not desperate. We have worked hard to defeat PDP while they were in power, when they had no faction, when all the founding fathers and founding mothers were in the same house, we defeated them.
“Nigerian people rejected them on account of 16 years of absolute misrule at the peak of our prosperity as a nation when oil sold for $140 a barrel and we came in when oil price has dropped.
“If with all those huge revenue that accrued to them, people complained of bad roads whether from the south to the east, from the north to the west, they have nothing new to offer to the Nigerian people.
“So, I think they are hunted by their own ghost and because they had perpetuated a do-or-die politics and they are on record both electronic and print as saying that election matter is about do or die.
“One of their old man was recorded as saying that and they perfected the language of rig them out, let them go to court.
“Now, rigging machine has been dismantled and how can they survive without it? The glue that held them together which was cheap money from federal treasury, again, that has been cut off. What they already have like a typical village sheep, they may be chewing it all day, all night.
“You know in the day time, the sheep will go to grab every food they can get so that at night, it is chewing. Just reprocessing.
“It appeared they have almost finished digesting what they have taken and now they are worried about how they can sustain power and they are threatening.”
Speaking on the upcoming Osun gubernatorial election, Oshiomhole said the Ekiti example would be replicated in Osun.