PDP In Panic Over Osinbajo's Emergence As APC VP

There is reportedly anxiety in the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) over the choice of Yemi Osinbajo
as Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate.


According to The Nation, the presidency were
previously building its campaign against the All
Progressives Congress (APC), based on the following
points:
1. If the APC goes for a Moslem-Moslem ticket, the
ruling party will brand the rivals as insensitive to
Nigeria’s glaring religious divides;
2. A Southwest candidate will make it difficult for the
PDP to win the zone’s sympathy. The APC chose has
picked a son in-law of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo,
who is revered even beyond the zone.


Therefore the ruling party got puzzled with the
emergence of Osinbajo, whose “impeccable”
personality crushed both plans, it was learnt.
The PDP allegedly planned to use religious factor for
the 2015 presidential campaign, however now they
have to come up with a new idea.
It was gathered from the sources that the PDP tops
had to get back to the drawing board.
According to one of the sources,
“There was gloom in PDP on Wednesday, following
the announcement of Osinbajo. The calculation was
that APC will be plunged into a crisis on the choice of
its running mate, but that was not the case.


“The PDP had been looking for a slight mistake to
brand APC a religious party after it could not sustain
the bigot stigma on Gen. Buhari. Some attack dogs
were on standby to hit the APC. All the plans have
now failed.”
Another source narrated how the PDP wanted to use
Awolowo’s name for campaign prosperity.
“By picking Osinbajo, the chances of PDP in the
South-West have become slimmer because the party
had wanted to take advantage of the political dynasty
of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo to make an inroad
into the region.
“The Presidency had tried to accommodate the grand
son of the late sage, Mr. Segun Awolowo by making
him the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Export
Promotion Council(NEPC).
“But APC has also made the late Awolowo’s son-in-
law as its vice-presidential candidate putting paid to
any scheming by the PDP in the Southwest.”
One more source confirmed the information:
“With the emergence of Osinbajo , the PDP has
returned to the drawing board. The ruling party is now
left to base its campaign on issues than sentiments.”
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa
Metuh, was contacted on the issue. The official did
not sound worried however.
“Who is Osinbajo? He was an ordinary commissioner
and we have hundreds of commissioners in the
country. The APC vice- presidential candidate is an
unknown individual in politics. He is not a threat to
PDP.
“One thing I know is that if it comes to issues and
performance we will win the 2015 presidential election
but if it comes to throwing anarchy or chaos, the APC
will have upper hand.”
Buhari, after announcing Osinbajo as his running
mate, said that “he [Osinbajo] is a man of
impeccable integrity”.