By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz
Yola
The PDP candidate for Adamawa South Senatorial District, Sen Silas Zwingina, has urged members of the party on the need to work hard to stop the victory of the APC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who he said has planned to send most of them to jail.
Speaking in Yola, Adamawa state capital, Zwingina said: “We have to stop Buhari and his plan to build more prisons to jail politicians. You know Buhari, he will send us to jail for between 300 to 200 years and it is the lucky ones among us that will get 50 years.
“As you know, there is no way you will hold office in Nigeria and be scot free if the authorities want to get you.
“Buhari is determined to send people to jail. And even APC governors are now not comfortable with him and that is why many of them are not following his campaign team.”
He said President Jonathan was 1,000 times better than Buhari and needed to be returned in order to continue his transformation agenda.
“Let me tell you that Jonathan is 1,000 times better than Buhari and that is why people resolved to vote for our candidate, President Jonathan,’’ he said.
The candidate also urged the people of Adamawa to elect Malam Nuhu Ribadu as governor and all other PDP candidates in the state.
In his remarks at the meeting, Ribadu pleaded for the unity of PDP members in the state if they must emerge victorious.
“If you vote me, I promise you that I will not betray you,” he said. “I met just recently with Mr President and he showed concern over the level of underdevelopment in Adamawa, with the promise that Adamawa is among the states he will accord priority in terms of federal projects.
“In 2011 election, we gave the president 65 per cent and I promised him that this time around we will give him 80 per cent.”