Deep tension in APC, As Court Set to Declare Buhari Mentally and Physically Unfit For the 2019 Elections

Deep tension in APC, As Court Set to Declare Buhari Mentally and Physically Unfit For the 2019 Elections

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has dismissed the concerns raised by the Coalition for United Political Parties, CUPP, over the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari, the APC Presidential Candidate, in the 2019 general elections

The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Lanre Issa-Onilu, at a Press Conference, in Abuja, on Thursday, said that the CUPP does not exist, and is only a tool of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

“The President is hale and hearty”, Issa-Onilu said.

“I will not honour the so called CUPP with any response, because they do not exist. These are members of PDP, who are looking for space to team up with Atiku as he has promised, so that if he gets to power, they continue where they stopped.”

Recall, that the CUPP had earlier in a statement, on Thursday, declared that Buhari is mentally and physically unfit to continue in Office as President.

This, the group said, was judged by his performance at different rallies, where the President almost fell at one, and made some blunders at others.

The CUPP, noted that in the light of this, it would commence legal action at the Federal High Court, to stop Buhari from participating in the 2019 Presidential election.

“In order to save this great nation the disaster that will follow, if President Buhari is in a rare happenstance re-elected, we the opposition political parties have therefore, filed litigation in court, seeking to declare him unfit to contest for 2019 election, because of his mental instability”, the CUPP said in the statement.

Reacting however, Issa-Onilu stressed that the opposition seemed to be surprised that the President is touring round the country, after saying Buhari will pass his responsibility to campaign to Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the APC, whom Buhari named as the co-Chairman of his re-election campaign.

“It is crystal clear that this coming election is going to be a disaster for PDP, and all efforts to scuttle the efforts, all efforts to blackmail the institutions that are responsible for the conduct of elections, all efforts to smear the image of the President, all that they have thrown at us, all have failed. So you can also say this is another effort, which will also go to nothing.

“They started by saying the President will pass on his responsibility to campaign to the Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, because he was not fit enough to go round the country to talk to the people. We have been working hard for three and a half years, to improve their livelihood.”

He added that the President is doing better than the opposition party’s Candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

“But we have been doing well, more than their so-called healthy Presidential andidate.

“The President is still going round the country. As I am speaking, he is in Kano, before a massive crowd, such has never been seen before.”

He maintained that the President’s movement so far has shown that he does not require any formal fitness report.

“If that is a miracle to them, you should understand that when God is involved, that is how it looks”, the APC Spokesperson said.

Deep tension in APC, As Court Set to Declare Buhari Mentally and Physically Unfit For the 2019 Elections