Buba Galadima, the secretary of the New Nigeria People’s Party’s Board of Trustees, incited indignation on Saturday by encouraging supporters of Obi-Kwankwaso to use “bottles and jerry cans of kerosene” when they go to polling booths for the 2027 general elections.
At a stakeholders’ summit hosted by the Obi-Kwankwaso Movement in Abuja, Galadima reiterated that Nigerians must defend their ballots by all means possible.
“And during the elections, whether I am alive or dead, go to the polling centres with your bottles and jerry cans of kerosene. Either they do what is right, or we all die there. So there will be no beneficiary”, the NNPP chieftain instructed.
“Salvaging a country from the hands of fascists like this is not an easy thing. It needs sacrifice, strategy and the use of the internet. So, ladies and gentlemen, be prepared to be in the trenches to safeguard our freedom. Let no one deceive you that it is going to be an easy task.
“In your revolution, I expect you to say, come rain, come shine, we must democratically, through the ballot box, remove this bad government. The ball is in our court”, he added.
He also acknowledged that the sitting government and ruling party is hell bent on destroying rising opposition parties but also issued a warning about future purported schemes to continue undermining opposition parties.
He cited the example of the highest court’s ruling sending parties engaged in internal disputes back to lower courts. He explained that the ruling could put the ADC under time pressure and make it nearly impossible for it to finish the candidate selection process before crucial deadlines.
“You are the Supreme Court, and it tells you to go back to the High Court. You file briefs, your opponent files briefs, and a date is set. Can all that be concluded before the end of May?” Galadima queried.
“If it cannot, can the ADC have a candidate? We don’t need a soothsayer to tell us it’s not possible,” he added.
Buba Galadima confirms NDC for Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso
Buba Galadima also confirmed that the due of Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso will move to the National Democratic Party next week.
“Both Obi, Kwankwaso and their chieftains were on ground between yesterday and this morning signing the relevant documents with Senator Dickson and the NDC leaders’, he said.
“We don’t want a repeat of what happened in the ADC to occur again. We discovered late that Atiku and his loyalists lured our leaders to that opposition party to fulfil only one single mission – Atiku’s presidential ambition.
“All is now set. Both Obi and Kwankwaso will announce their defection from the ADC on Monday.”
