That is your civic right to come out next Saturday and on the 2nd of March, and choose whoever you like in the parties. This is your right. So, there is no problem about it
Admin l Monday, Feb. 11, 2019
OGUN, Lagos, Nigeria – President Muhammadu Buhari today got the treatment he never anticipated he will get at a campaign rally after the incident in the Senate during his 2019 budget presentation.
It was in Ogun State, that ought to be one of his catchment area that he got this lifetime humiliation. He was surprised to see a cheering audience become hostile when it was time for him to introduce the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress(APC) in the state, Mr. Dapo Abiodun.
As soon as he held up the hands of the candidate the crowd went wild, booed and hurled objects, at the President forcing the security forces to whisk him out of sight and take him beyond the rich of the angry crowd.
The organisers were forced to end the rally as security operatives led Buhari and other party members off the stage. Dapo Abiodun is not the candidate of Buhari’s right hand man, who incidentally is the governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, who is also running for senate under the APC.
His candidate is however, Mr. Adekunle Akinlade of the Allied Peoples Movement(APM), who was introduced to President Buhari in Abuja earlier. Akinlade was initially a member of the APC but left when the party when APC picked Dapo Abiodun as governorship candidate.
But it appeared that the crowd wanted something different. Buhari had earlier spoken about achievements of the APC administration, but it was intermittently greeted with cheers when he told them to vote for whoever they want for the governorship but they started booing him when he held the hands of Dapo Abiodun, introducing him as governorship candidate of the party.
“That is your civic right to come out next Saturday and on the 2nd of March, and choose whoever you like in the parties. This is your right. So, there is no problem about it,” he said .
