{"id":10533,"date":"2018-07-10T21:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10533"},"modified":"2018-07-10T21:05:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:05:57","slug":"dont-waste-your-vote-on-pdp-buhari-as-ngige-gaffe-video-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10533","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t waste your vote on PDP, Buhari as Ngige gaffe video goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Additional reports by\u00a0<strong>www.nan.ng<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident Muhamadu Buhari on Tuesday asked the electorate in Ekiti \u00a0not to waste their votes \u00a0in Saturday\u2019s governorship election on the Peoples\u2019 Democratic Party (PDP).<br \/>\nRather, \u00a0the president urged voters to elect the candidate of the All Progressives Party (APC),\u00a0 Dr \u00a0Kayode Fayemi, given the track record of the ruling APC\u00a0 administration in the country.<br \/>\nHe spoke as the video of a gaffe by Labour Minister, Dr. Chris Ngige, went viral. Ngige aaked Ekiti voters to vote for Fayose, but he promptly corrected himself.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 656px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-10533-1\" width=\"656\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/VID-20180710-WA0023.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/VID-20180710-WA0023.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/VID-20180710-WA0023.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nBuhari, who gave the charge in Ado-Ekiti\u00a0 at the grand finale of the mega rally of the party, told the crowd of party faithful and supporters at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium that there was no better alternative to Fayemi.<br \/>\nHe said the people of Ekiti must not be deceived \u00a0by the \u201cstomach infrastructure\u2019\u2019 programme\u00a0 of the PDP government in the state, describing it as at variance with the norms in a functional democracy.<br \/>\nBuhari said he was in\u00a0 Ekiti not only to campaign for Fayemi but also to create\u00a0 awareness as well as sensitise the people on the dividends of democracy so far made available to them.<br \/>\nThe president said his administration had so far executed 13 projects \u00a0in the state, with no fewer than 29 contractors handling them.<br \/>\nHe said the initiatives, most of which were \u00a0road construction projects, \u00a0had also provided direct and indirect jobs to \u00a0many residents.<br \/>\nBesides, he said approval had been given by his administration for the construction of a Federal Secretariat in Ado Ekiti to ease the burden of\u00a0 office accommodation faced by federal workers in the state.<br \/>\nHe also listed the engagement of many indigenes of the state in\u00a0 the N-Power programme of the Federal Government, granting of\u00a0 bailout funds to \u00a0the state as well as approval of School-Feeding Programme and Conditional Cash Transfer scheme as some of the achievements of\u00a0 his administration.<br \/>\nThe president assured \u00a0the people of the state of more dividends of democracy if they support Fayemi in the election.<br \/>\nAlso addressing the crowd, the National Chairman of the party, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, said Fayemi \u00a0would redress all the wrongs of the Ayo Fayose administration.<br \/>\nHe also gave an assurance that all the salaries and emoluments owed workers by the Fayose administration would be paid.<br \/>\nSpeaking in the same vein, the National Leader of the party, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, \u00a0assured residents \u00a0that the APC was committed to the progress and development of the country.<br \/>\nHe accused the PDP of destroying the country\u2019s economy, urging the people to embrace the change agenda of the APC.<br \/>\n\u201d It was the PDP that destroyed the future of Nigeria and those yet unborn. PDP stole all the monies and made life difficult for all the citizens<br \/>\n\u201d It is not easy to rebuild what the PDP has spent long years destroying; for \u00a0many of them that are now complaining, \u00a0where were they when our economy was being bastardised?<br \/>\n\u201d You must not allow anybody to\u00a0 intimidate you, I urge you to guard \u00a0your PVC and use it wisely on Saturday<br \/>\n\u201d It is your turn in Ekiti to get a good government, it is not for you alone but for your children and their future,\u2019\u2019 \u00a0Tinubu said.<br \/>\nNAN reports that at the rally were 12 APC governors, seven serving ministers and national leaders of the party.<br \/>\nNAN also reports that the high point \u00a0of the event was the formal defection to\u00a0 \u00a0the APC\u00a0 by\u00a0 many PDP members including a\u00a0 serving Senator, \u00a0Fatimah Raji-Rasaki, and a member of \u00a0the House of\u00a0 Representatives, Oni Olamide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional reports by\u00a0www.nan.ng President Muhamadu Buhari on Tuesday asked the electorate in Ekiti \u00a0not to waste their votes \u00a0in Saturday\u2019s governorship election on the Peoples\u2019 Democratic Party (PDP). Rather, \u00a0the president urged voters to elect the candidate of the All Progressives Party (APC),\u00a0 Dr \u00a0Kayode Fayemi, given the track record of the ruling APC\u00a0 administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}