The presidency has said that President Goodluck Jonathan will be contesting against ‘serial failures’. A veiled reference to a former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari and an ex-Vice president Atiku Abubakar.
A senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, who was speaking in an interview with State House correspondents, assured the supporters of the president not to entertain fear adding that the opposition aspirants will be floored at the floored at the polls.
Okupe described an online media report which claimed that Jonathan was scheming to illegally extend his tenure as untrue, saying that the opposition aspirants had been rejected by Nigerians in the past.
According to him, nothing has changed to make Nigerians accept either retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari or Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who have failed in the past in their quest to become president.
Responding to a question on whether Jonathan should be worried about the opposition, he stated that the declaration of the opposition was not really something new.
“Most of the candidates of the opposition are serial failures. Atiku has tried twice, he has failed; Buhari has done it four times, he has failed”.
“If you present yourself in an election, the first time people reject you, second time, they reject you. So, have they gone to school, to Harvard or are they bringing new things.
“We are not worried at all. We are absolutely unperturbed. The president is going to contest against serial losers.
“People who never win elections, people who Nigerians don’t believe in, people who have no leadership anything.
“And it is even now worse for them. This president has been given four years, a platform on which he has demonstrated administrative capability, efficiency and delivery. It is unarguable.
“This party, the APC, it is a new party, it is a good party. They will become relevant from 2019 upwards not now.
“Their declaration and participation is not a threat to us. They have never won an election before,” he said.
