APC’s chances in 2019 no more — PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the chances of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) retaining power in 2019 have vanished.

The PDP also said it believed that the alleged moves to arrest the media adviser to a former Military President, Ibrahim Babangida, Mr. Kassim Afegbua, over Babangida’s declaration that President Muhammadu Buhari should not seek reelection in 2019, was a ploy to set the table for a “vicious muzzling” of constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech.

The PDP in a statement yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the police and other security agencies should not allow themselves to be used by the “sinking APC as instruments of persecution against Nigerians perceived to be unsupportive of the unpopular re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari.”

The opposition party said, “Recent distasteful events, including unwarranted harassment of perceived opponents of the APC, supposed and actual presidential hopefuls, as well as opposition members, show that the APC has now gone into jittery mode, having realised that its chances of winning the 2019 general elections has already vanished.

“We now have a terrifying situation where people are harassed for daring to aspire for certain elective offices or even express opinion regarding governance in the country,” the PDP said.