The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has tasked the new Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, to be neutral in the 2019 General Election.
Speaking on Tuesday in Osogbo, Osun State at the party’s presidential campaign rally, he accused Mohammed’s predecessor, Ibrahim Idris, of being an agent of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).
Secondus said the new IG has a herculean task because enough damage was done to the force by his predecessor.
The National Chairman, who accused the APC of stealing its mandate in the September 8, 2018 governorship election in the state, assured that this would be restored in no distant time.
His words: “We warn INEC and the security agencies to be neutral. We welcome on behalf of the party the new Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu. You are to serve Nigerians, please clean up the mess of the former IGP Idris. He served APC. We encourage you to serve Nigerians. We encourage you to protect the institution and the people and not to secure a section of people, not to secure a section of the cabal but to secure all Nigerians. We warn INEC, you cannot rig Nigerians.
“The economy has collapsed, you are aware that security has collapsed, you are also aware that the government is broken. You are also aware that the President denies everything that is going on. He does not know anything, he is not aware of anything. Now we need a President who will work for 24 hours in a day. To provide employment to the people, not the APC government that is sleeping. In the last four years they have been sleeping and yet the increase in unemployment all over the land and hunger is everywhere. Are we better now than before?”
Besides charging them to vote for Atiku, he urged the people to vote for the party’s candidates at the National and State Assembly elections.
On his part, presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, asked them not to vote for APC because they were unable to keep any of the promises they made in 2015 to the people.
“Instead of giving you the job they promised, they stole the ones you have and made us the poor capital of the World. They cannot be trusted,” he said.
The wife of the candidate, Titi Abubakar who is from the state, assured that if her husband gets to power, things will be better.
Former governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola; immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose; ex-Ogun State governor, Gbenga Daniel; former lawmaker for Ondo North Senatorial District, Bode Olajumoke; National Vice Chairman (South West), Eddy Olafeso among others also drummed support for Atiku.
Earlier, the presidrntial candidate and the National Chairman had led other leaders of the party to the palaces of the Ooni of Ife at Ile-Ife and the Oba of ijesaland in Ijesa on a courtesy call where the two royal fathers prayed for them.
OWEDE AGBAJIKEKE
