Don’t vote for treasury looters –Buhari

Former Nigeria’s head of state and presidential aspirant of All Progressives congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari has called on Nigerians not to vote for treasury looters in next year’s general elections.

Buhari spoke yesterday at the Lokoja township stadium during a rally to welcome some decampees from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC.

He said the PDP government has failed the masses, explaining that Nigeria was rich enough to make life comfortable for every one and urged the electorate to come out en masse to vote out the PDP.

While saying that APC was the only party that could rescue the country from treasury looters, he said the next five months before the general elections would be tough.

Also speaking on the occasion, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku said the APC was set to take over Kogi State and called on the PDP-led administration in the state to begin to prepare its hand-over note.

The national chairman of APC, John Oyegun, while receiving the defectors said the large turn out of the people to the rally was a testimony that Kogi State was now an APC state.

Among the decampees were former acting governor of the state, Chief Clarence Olafemi, seven members of the state House of Assembly, the former PDP chairman in the state, Chief John Odawn, former ambassador to Boswana, Isaac Onu, among others.

However, Alh Isah Echocho contrary to the wide publicity given to the decampee, at the last minute refused to decamp to the APC on the ground that he may not be allowed to fly the governorship flag of the APC

He is said to be lobbying governor Idris Wada for the senatorial position

Reacting to the decamping of the members of PDP to the APC, a statement from government house lokoja, signed by the special adviser to the governor on media and strategy, mr Jacob Edi said the PDP was not surprise with those who defected to the APC

According to the statement, those who defected were those causing disaffection within the party and called them the “rotten eggs” who were not comfortable with the giant strides recorded by governor Idris Wada describing their exit as “ good riddance to bad rubbish”