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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has said it wants President Muhammadu Buhari to complete his tenure in 2019 and suffer defeat from it (the PDP) in the presidential elections should he (Buhari) decide to re-contest.
The opposition party also advised the president to hand over power to his deputy should his health condition continue to pose a major challenge to the discharge of his duties as President.
This was revealed by the factional leader of the party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi in an interview with The Nation.
The PDP chieftain was reacting to the failure of President Buhari to attend the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting for three consecutive weeks.
In his words: “It cannot be okay and it can never be okay. My take is that if the President is not fully fit to stay in office, it is better that he tell Nigerians, so that the Vice President will continue to be Acting President, exercising the powers of acting president.
“Then you run away from this kind of situation when we allow time for the President to fully recover and assume his mantle of leadership. Me as PDP person, as a human being, I will never wish any human being ill-will, even if I disagree with you politically.
“So, it does not matter that it is APC that is the person that is sick. My prayer is that he will be fit to serve his term.
“As a politician, I equally want him to finish his term. So when some people begin to insinuate things, of what interest would it be to PDP should the President be unable to finish his term.
“We don’t wish him ill will, we want him to be well, we want him to be fit enough to be on seat when in 2019 we go for election and defeat the APC.
“For a number of reasons, the PDP wishes the President well, for stability of this country, political stability and the fact that we want to defeat a sitting President.
“We don’t want any confusion politically in this country. It is not good for anybody and as a human being; I never wish anybody ill will irrespective of political differences.”