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The spokesperson of the President Muhammadu Buhari re-election marketing campaign, Festus Keyamo (SAN) has accused members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of not pondering straight.
Keyamo made this comment in response to the purported clampdown on the opposition party by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal authorities.
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria acknowledged that the party has misplaced the sympathy of Nigerians due to its sins in opposition to Nigerians and blood on its fingers.
Speaking to Punch, Keyamo stated: “They did it to individuals and they also assume others will even do it. That is why you'll be able to see that they've written letters to the United Nations, crying to excessive heaven that some individuals wish to rig elections.
“That was precisely what they did, so they're already assuming — and it's simply a unsuitable assumption — that others will do what they did too.
“You can see that's the reason they don't seem to be getting the sympathy of Nigerians as a result of the individuals know that they (PDP members) are crying foul.
“So, on the problem of clampdown on the opposition, that's an army time period. It doesn't apply and it'll by no means apply in a democratic setting corresponding to this.
“They are those who referred to as for the looters’ listing and the federal authorities obliged them. Can you see that these persons are confused?
“The members of the PDP, with all due respect, are like anyone who had ‘killed’ so many individuals. I'm not saying that actually; I'm saying this as an analogy.
“They are like somebody who killed so many individuals and blood is on their fingers, then the particular person begins to behave like a psychological affected person as a result of they've dedicated so many atrocities.
“When you've dedicated so many atrocities, you don’t suppose straight once more as a result of the blood of individuals is now in your fingers.
“They have dedicated a lot sin in opposition to Nigerians that, proper now, they don't seem to be pondering straight once more. That is what's taunting them proper now.
“That is why you see them issuing all kinds of inconsistent statements. They are no longer thinking straight.”