The National Coordinator of Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO), Alhaji Danladi Pasali, has said the defection of some senators and House of Representatives members from the ruling APC to the opposition PDP and other parties will not affect the popularity of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.
Alhaji Pasali told newsmen at the BCO headquarters in Abuja, that analysis of the defected lawmakers showed that most of them took the decision to save their political ambitions as a result of their grievances at the grassroots.
According to him, with or without them, Buhari was already the man of the masses adding that no serious politician would dump the president or the APC at this particular moment.
“All of those that decamped to PDP need Buhari in their political careers more than Buhari needs them. Except few among them, the majority rode on the wave of popularity of President Buhari in 2015 to secure their mandates. So, for us at the BCO, we regard this as great political miscalculation and suicide.
“We see this as a good omen. We in BCO are celebrating. In most cases you can’t make progress if you have an enemy within, because he will pretend to be with you, but in reality he is using the relationship to bring you down,” Pasali said.
