The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has cautioned “bad critics” of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying there was no justification for unwarranted attacks on the president by some Nigerians.
Beside the president’s party, APC, and the leading opposition party, PDP, APGA, which has one state governor, is the most visible political party among the remaining 37 registered parties in the country.
National chairman of the party, Dr. Ike Oye, told reporters yesterday in Abuja that people that have different political party leanings and other considerations must give the office of the president the needed respect for the country to grow.
He said Nigerians needed to always pray for their leaders and noted that the president, contrary to the wishes of some people, will not die until he fulfills his destiny.
“If we don’t pray for Nigeria to succeed, all of us are collectively doomed. Governance is not easy; Buhari can be ill, he can be indisposed one way or another. He is a human being.
“There is nothing scandalous about somebody being sick. As a sincere man, he told you he was going on leave and checkup. If you see him at King’s hospital, is there anything wrong about that? What is wrong about being sick?
“Buhari would have done better if Nigerians had wished him well. All these enemies fighting him left, right and centre, they are not fighting Buhari, they are fighting against the destiny of Nigeria.
“If he dies tomorrow, it is his time; all of us will die. Is there anything strange about it? I will die someday. If President Buhari dies today, he dies for Nigeria because we gave him the trouble that killed him,” Oye said.
Oye, however, predicted that Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State will win a second term in the November governorship election under the platform of APGA.
According to him, Obiano had done a lot for the people including the recent award of contracts for the construction of 111 roads, apart from ongoing ones across the state.
He also said the Federal Ministry of Works was indebted to Anambra State government to the tune of N43.8 billion for contracts it executed on behalf of the government at the centre.
He said the state government had fixed seven federal roads in the Anambra just to give its residents some relief.
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