THE main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the President that Nigerians need in 2019 is one that has good health and mental capacity to lead the country.
Uche Secondus, National Chairman of the party who stated this while responding to a claim by Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation and Aviation that even if Buhari contested from a sickbed in 2019, he would win in some core northern states.
The opposition party asked Nigerians Nigerians to insist on a healthy president in 2019.
He lamented that Amaechi and others in government “actually know that the President is sick” and that Buhari did not possess the mental ability to lead the country.
“If Amaechi could say that the President would win on a sickbed, then he knows the health status of his principal. He knows that we have a sick leader who will not be able to give his maximum attention to the country,” Secondus said.
“We don’t need such a man at this critical time. We need a President who will be able to work 24 hours and read all memos, stand at meetings and debate with people and the parliament. We don’t need a figurehead president that the likes of Amaechi are praying for.
“I know that people like him want a president they can deceive, who will not be on top of happenings in their ministries and in the country. They want a president who won’t watch television and who will not read newspapers. If that is what they want, they will meet their Waterloo in 2019,” he added.
The PDP Chairman added that the battle ahead would be between what he called a desperate cabal and Nigerians who he said “will be desirous to get freed from the grip of the wicked.”
Kassim Afegbua, National Publicity Secretary of the R-APC, said Nigerians deserved better than a President on a sickbed to provide leadership in the 21st century.
Afegbua said, “Unknown to Hon. Minister Amaechi, Nigerians do not want a man on sickbed, hence there is a general consensus that this present leadership should quit.
“The country is terminally ill as a result of bad and ineffective leadership. Nigerians have been prevailing on the President to sit down and offer leadership, but he has been racking his brain.”