Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), Muhammadu Buhari has responded to a
controversial advert placed by the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo
Fayose on the front page of Punch Newspaper.
The advert shows pictures of previously deceased Nigerian
leaders and appears to predict death for Buhari as well
saying that citizens should avoid another state burial by re-
electing President Goodluck Jonathan.
The former Head of State has spoken out via Twitter about
the advert.
In his words...
'I have become seriously disturbed by the volume of
falsehood and desperation from the opposition campaign
of the PDP.
I clearly underrated the panic and lack of integrity that
leads people to tell barefaced lies, and must confess, it
continues to confound me
I have run for office before, but I have consistently done
so without desperation or anger, because elections are
not war.
Why should candidates tell so many frantic lies in order
to win elections, if truly their purpose is to ‘transform’
the lives of our people?
It is a tragedy to see the ruling party focus on pettiness
and lies; rumours of cancer, foreign treatment, and
certificates they know exist.
The desperation is beyond my understanding.
#ThingsMustChange
What is this obsession with lies? What is this obsession
with pettiness? What is this obsession with threats and
attacks?
All of us, citizens and voters need to ask ourselves –
why is our President so desperate?
How can the President of this country be talking about
remembering phone numbers and coup speeches?
How can a President who has led this country for six
years be unable to run on his own record and his
achievements?
How can his campaign be talking about dead ex-leaders,
jogging around the stadium and outright lies about my
health?
Where is his fabled calm, where is his reserve, where is
his composure? Why is he so ruffled? Why is he so
frustrated and afraid?
We should be deeply worried that a President who called
for calm during governorship elections has now lost his
cool in his own elections.
Our President and his allies must remember that he is
not only a candidate for office; he is the President of
Nigeria.
We do not have a disinformation or propaganda wing in
our campaign. We have no need to waste time in driving
petty attacks.
We have not spoken about the President's family, his
health, his religion, his ethnic group, or his phone
number.
We are concerned only about his record – has he
secured Nigeria? Has he fought corruption? Has he truly
grown the economy so it can work?
Can our president keep us safe when we travel to any
part of this country? Is your life better today than it was
six years ago?
We have only presented our record – how we fought
insurgencies, how we stabilised the naira, how we
tackled corruption.
Therefore, I shall refuse to indulge the smear campaign.
I refuse to allow them take away the focus from the
issues that concern you.
Let us focus on those issues, please. Elections are not
war. February 14 is not about politicians. It is about our
country.
We insist on a campaign of hope, change and the future.
This election is about big, important issues. We refuse to
play it small.
Join us as we continue the relentless pace of our rallies
in Minna and Kaduna today. #Change is finally here, my
friends. - GMB CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS
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