PDP writes off Buhari at Chatham House …says APC chasing shadows

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as theatrical, the presentation of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, at the Chatham House, London, yesterday.

National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh, in his response to the APC presidential candidate's lecture, Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in Africa: Nigeria's Transition, dismissed Buhari's speech as 'a script well written, a script well-acted, but a truthful lie.'

Metuh said General Buhari was not competent to sermonise on the imperative of representative government.

He said: 'The messenger belies the message. The stage was targeted to secure a desperately needed endorsement of the international community, but the world is hardly fooled by theatrics of desperation.

'APC is chasing shadows. That stage may have lifted the badly deflated morale of the members of APC, but the vanishing performance is incapable of redeeming the forlorn fortune in the bad sale the APC flag bearer is, in the March 28 presidential election.'

On President Goodluck Jonathan's visit to Barga and Mubi in Borno and Adamawa states respectively, the party said: 'We wish to commend President Jonathan for boosting the morale of our gallant soldiers with a visit today (Thursday) to Baga in Bornu State and Mubi in Adamawa State.

'His able leadership has resulted in the huge successes recorded by our Armed Forces in the fight against insurgency.'