{"id":913,"date":"2018-12-27T14:54:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=913"},"modified":"2018-12-27T14:54:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T14:54:48","slug":"your-campaign-has-no-traction-its-a-failure-presidency-mocks-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/your-campaign-has-no-traction-its-a-failure-presidency-mocks-pdp","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYour campaign has no traction, it\u2019s a failure\u201d \u2013 Presidency mocks PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu has mocked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP saying that it\u2019s 2019 campaign has no traction.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n<div class=\"mashsb-box\">\n<div class=\"mashsb-count mash-large\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mashsb-buttons\">\n<p>oliticsNGR gathered that Shehu during an interaction with State House Correspondents on Wednesday,\u00a0said that if the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP wants to make family the issue in the coming elections, the APC would gladly accept the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to various comments by several organs of the opposition party on remarks made by the President on views publicly expressed by his wife, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari in an interview, the presidential spokesman said questions raised of the President by the PDP in regard to his wife only amounted to an own goal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Garba-Shehu-1604-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Garba-Shehu-1604-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Garba-Shehu-1604-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Garba-Shehu-1604-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Garba-Shehu-1604.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP leadership cannot afford to make family an issue in this campaign. Need I say more? The only thing I want to add is that PDP is engaging in mud-slinging because it finds it easier than speaking on their despicable 16-year record in the course of which they abused the trust of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey made a mess of everything including the economy, security and infrastructure. It has come to the destiny of President Muhammadu Buhari to correct their mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP doesn\u2019t see anything beyond grabbing power, power at all costs. As an opposition party, they have failed. They have remained disconnected with the masses of our people. It is an irony that a party that boasted as being the largest in Africa is now begging small parties for alliances. Even if they get all those paper parties behind them, they will still fail. A Presidential contest is more than the issuance of daily press releases containing falsehoods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"emvab5c24dd5ac5b12\">\n<p>\u201cThey have launched a campaign for the Presidency, a campaign that has failed to get any traction. PDP members are themselves admitting that the campaign hadn\u2019t made a good start, that attendance at rallies had unarguably been thin. The whole thing is not working; that President Buhari is unstoppable,\u201d Garba Shehu said.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201crather than a so-called cabal, an imaginary creation attached to all past governments of the country, President Buhari is remote-controlled by the 200 million-plus Nigerian people whose interest is uppermost in everything he says and does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP doesn\u2019t have the strength and support to fight President Buhari. They don\u2019t have the records in security, economy and the war against corruption to mount any meaningful challenge.<\/p>\n<p>They have no records of accomplishments in infrastructure. In the 16 years they held sway, they have nothing to show for the colossal oil revenues earned, including USD 16 billion doled upfront from the Central Bank for power, without a single megawatt to show for all that money. That is why they are dragging the President\u2019s wife into their politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tps_slideContainer_49989\" class=\"theiaPostSlider_slides\">\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu has mocked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP saying that it\u2019s 2019 campaign has no traction. oliticsNGR gathered that Shehu during an interaction with State House Correspondents on Wednesday,\u00a0said that if the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP wants to make family the issue in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,14],"tags":[91,65,92],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","category-policy","tag-garba-shehu","tag-pdp","tag-shehu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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