Former Minister of Transport and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief Ebenezer Babatope has said come the next presidential election in 2019, the opposition party will unseat President Buhari. Babatope made this disclosure in Ekiti on Thursday while blasting the Department of State Service (DSS) over the alleged invasion of the Ekiti State House of Assembly and arrest of 4 lawmakers, saying their action was partisan.
Speaking during a solidarity visit to Governor Ayo Fayose, Babatope said, ” These fellows are just kidding themselves. I’m one with the Governor and the party. They will fail. What those who are not fighting the cause of the people are doing will never succeed. I’m an Awo trained person, I don’t have any grudge against EFCC or DSS. But each time there is anything rising against APC, the EFCC would just go and pick the person to hang. The forceful arrest would not work. Obasanjo did it before and it failed, I’m in the PDP. DSS and EFCC must work for Nigeria and not for a party or an individual.
“You can see that we are already gaining an upper hand, look at all the recent elections, PDP has triumphed in almost all of them. And by the grace of God, come 2019, we will show the APC the way out of Government. Apparently, there must be reasons why people now follow us. I can tell you that the APC’s romance with power would terminate in 2019. This is mere distraction, it won’t destroy our democracy. It is the EFCC and DSS that would bring themselves to shame. I want to advise President Buhari that he should not dump democracy for selective justice, if he does that, he would destroy himself. In any case, we have been preparing for him, such that come 2019, we will become stronger in PDP and dislodge him from Aso Rock.”