2019: Opposition victory in DR Congo: CUPP predicts worse defeat for Buhari
Following the victory of opposition candidate, Felix Tshisekedi in the just concluded Presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has boasted that the Nigerian opposition will inflict massive defeat on President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 16 Presidential election in Nigeria.
Tshisekedi defeated candidate of the ruling party backed by President Joseph Kabila in the keenly contested election fated to change the political trajectory of the resource- rich but troubled country.
A statement issued on Friday by the spokesman of the CUPP, Ikenga Ugochinyere, noted that the election result in DR Congo gives confidence to the Nigerian opposition that with clear cut issues-based campaign as being led by the consensus opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar, victory is in sight.
The coalition spokesman boasted in the statement that President Buhari will suffer the most humiliating electoral defeat of any ruling party in Nigeria due to his crass incompetence. “President Buhari is following the same trajectory which did not save outgoing President Kabila and his stooge/party’s candidate from defeat.”
The CUPP pointed out that President Kabila deployed the Inspector General of Police and Inspector General of the Armed Forces, John Numbi to intimidate voters and opposition voices. “He manipulated the Electoral Commission and thugs loyal to the Kabila government burnt the Commission’s office without any sanctions. Leading opposition voices were dumped in jail just for expressing their fundamen- tal rights of free speech and many fled to exile.
“Despite all these, Congolese citizens spoke loud and clear that they were fed up with the Kabila Government,” the statement said.
Ugochinyere said further that Nigerians are patiently waiting for the opening of ballot on the 16th February to show the desperate non-performing and corruption-loving government of President Muhammadu Buhari the way out of the Presidential Villa.
“The tenure of Mr. Ibrahim Idris as IGP has since expired, the niece of the President has been appointed by INEC as the Chair of the Presidential Election Collation Centre Committee. Military has been deployed nationwide under the command of APC point men and leading opposition figures and businesses are being hounded and emasculated.