‘Re-electing Jonathan’ll be a national disaster'

The General Muhammadu Buhari Volunteers’ Group has warned of an implosion should President Goodluck Jonathan return to power.

The organisation called on Nigerians who had yet to collect their Permanent Voter Cards to do so and ensure that the Peoples Democratic Party is voted out of power in the forthcoming general elections.

The group also described the shifting of elections to March 28, 2015 as a plot by the PDP-led government to perfect its rigging plan in the forthcoming elections.

The Coordinator of the organisation in the Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Fidel Obi, said this during a sensitisation rally in Karu, Abuja on Sunday.

According to him, returning President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP to office would be “a disaster waiting to be unleashed on Nigerians.”

Obi stressed, “Our concern is not this highlighted infraction which is well known to Nigerians but what is looming before us is ready for implosion. We have started seeing signs of these disasters by the inability of many state governments to meet their basic obligations, particularly meeting their respective wage bills. All these are attributed to the dwindling allocations due to the crash in oil prices and loss of oil revenue due to theft.”

He said that the membership of the group cut across different professional, ethnic and religious groups who believed in a united and working Nigeria.

Obi said the group had a conviction that with the victory of Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osibanjo (SAN), come March 28, 2015, the dwindling values and morals would be revived and the citizens would once again be proud of their country.

Obi said, “GMB volunteers are a frontline voluntary organisation saddled with the grass root mobilisation for the victory of Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of the All Progressive Congress at the 2015 polls.

“We sincerely call on those who are still undecided and few others who still see light in the re-election bid of President Jonathan to align with proponents of change so that posterity will be fair to them for helping rescue Nigeria from the hands of this cabal.”