We are all familiar with the statement, “If you
can’t beat them join them”. A statement that a
coward must have come up with during one of
those dark periods in human history.
Three times the president-elect, General Buhari,
contested against the People’s Democratic Party,
three times he failed and each time he contested
again until he eventually won.
In 2003 under the banner of the defunct ANPC, he
contested against Obasanjo representing the PDP
and lost; in 2007 still under the banner of the
defunct ANPC, he contested against the late
Shehu Musa Yar’adua representing the PDP and
lost.
In 2011, he ran the contest as the presidential
candidate representing the Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC) and lost again. This
time around, to president Goodluck Jonathan
whom he eventually defeated in the 2015
presidential contest as the candidate for the APC.
When the president-elect lost the election against
Obasanjo in 2003, he challenged the result of the
election in Court throughout the duration of
Obasanjo’s presidency or as lawyers would put
it, until “the matter was overtaken by events”.
Say whatever you like about the man from
Daura, he has qualities that only a handful of
Nigerian politicians have: patience, endurance,
honour and discipline.
Buhari was the only constant opposition
candidate in Nigeria for twelve years and some
senior PDP politicians are decamping to APC
fewer than two weeks after losing the presidential
elections.
In his effort to shore up support for APC
gubernatorial aspirants, the president-elect may
be welcoming PDP defectors but here’s a
message to them:
How can you ever gain the respect of a
man who was the face of opposition for
more than twelve years when you can’t
stand by your party two week after you lost
an election?
Fleeing PDP politicians have shown Nigerians by
their actions that PDP is a party with no ideology
full of greedy politicians with no scruples of
principles.
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