2019: PDP Reacts to Pres Buhari's Withholding of Assent to Sequence of Election Law | CNR

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has reacted to President Mohammadu Buhari's refusal to approve the Sequence of Election Law passed by the National Assembly.

PDP was not surprised that President Muhammadu Buhari withheld his assent to the legislation by the National Assembly, which reordered the sequence of general elections in the country, particularly given the tendencies he had continued to display as a politician.

In a statement its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan on Tuesday, PDP said it "believes in democracy and subscribes to all its tenets including the respect for the powers of the National Assembly to make laws and to amend such laws as occasion demands".

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"In the light of this development, the PDP, and indeed all well-meaning Nigerians, now eagerly await the final decision of the National Assembly on this amendment.

The party maintained that it was not afraid of the 2019 general elections, adding that Nigerians have already rejected President Buhari and his All Progressives Congress, APC.

"As a party, we are not afraid of the 2019 general elections because we know that Nigerians have already rejected President Buhari and his dysfunctional All Progressives Congress (APC).

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Against this backdrop, the PDP assured to provide all the members of their party a level playing ground to choose a Presidential candidate in a National Convention that promises to be open, free, fair, credible and transparent.

"We know that with the support of Nigerians, any candidate that emerges on our platform ahead of 2019 will clinically defeat President Buhari at the polls and lead our nation back to the path of progress, national cohesion and a vibrant economy", the PDP said.