The Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) presidential candidate, Oby Ezekwesili has expressed her lack of confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari over his attitude towards the forthcoming general elections.

The former Minister of Solid Minerals as well as Education during her presidential campaign in Akure, Ondo State lambasted the president. She said;

“I believe the Nigerian people must be on the alert, I do not trust this APC government of President Muhammadu Buhari. He has not shown himself to be trustworthy with the fact that he refused to sign into law, the electoral amendment bill of 2018.”

“He should have taken that bill and signed it to law. If it was signed into law, it means we can believe in the electoral integrity of our elections and electoral umpires. Today, Buhari has basically weakened the capacity of INEC and avoids them doing the thing that they ought to do according to law.”

“So, I do not believe in peace accord that he signed and if it was in good faith. I don’ t trust that the fact that Amina Zakari who is a daughter of a man that married to the sister of the President Buhari being part of the conduct of 2019 election should be trusted.”

“I don’t believe a lot of thing around the way that the government is trying to execute the 2019 election but I believed in the Nigeria people and they would not allow anyone to dismantle our hard-won democracy.”

“This democracy, people died and were also maimed fighting for this democracy. This democracy is very greater than President Buhari and his administration. This democracy will survive Buhari. The Nigeria people are saying both the APC and PDP government have failed and they must go, so that we build a new nation.”

“Nigerians are fed up with the failures of governance, which has become too costly for Nigerians. Just look at us, we are now the world capital of poverty. We have overtaken India which is even seven times of our population as a country with the largest number poor people.”

“There are eighty-seven poor people in Nigeria, which is a country of less than two hundred million people. In India there are about 1.3 billion people and there are seventy -nine million people in extreme poverty and that is a shameful situation.”

“We cannot allow it to continue. The more that bad governance is given to us by APC and PDP, the more that people drop into poverty. It is time for change of direction in our country and it is time for us too to take ourselves out of mediocrity and poor performance.”

“It is time to become a country that is governed on the basis of knowledge and by someone who has character and competence and know the kind of policy that can grow a economy. We are growing at 1.8 percent and that is less than a percentage of our population at 2.8 percent. You know this is disastrous.”

“What it means is that children, men women will be lock in permanently poverty. We must break a circle of poverty and that is why I’m running. I am not running so that I would answer a title, I am running so that I will mobilise the Nigeria people to do things will be done differently.”

“I am not running alone, all Nigerian must run with me because we want a different Nigeria. The Nigeria that will make children of the poor have access to quality education.”