Balarabe Musa blasts Buhari

National Chairman of the Peoples Re­demption Party (PRP), Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has lashed out at All Progressives Con­gress (APC) presidential candidate, General Muham­madu Buhari, describing him as a person with “ten­dency towards fascist intol­erance and an arrogant self-righteousness.”
Balarabe, who made the ob­sevation at a special/extraor­dinary meeting of the national executive committee (NEC) of the party at the weekend, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, where it voted overwhelm­ingly in support of an alliance with the ruling Peoples Dem­ocratic Party (PDP) for the presidential election of March 28, 2015, also accused Presi­dent Jonathan and the PDP of “monumental ineptitude, cor­rupt administration and politi­cal visionless.”
Captioning his address, “Making a Difficult But Nec­essary and Patriotic Choice,” the PRP leader, whose party had recently been deregistered by INEC, said: “We have to identify and articulate what is in the best interest of the PRP in the present circumstances.
“In the coming electoral contest, what should be upper­most for the party is its contin­ued existence as a legally rec­ognized political entity, free like any other party to engage in the liberal democratic quest for power which the Nigerian constitution allows.
“Of course it is obvious that none of the present can­didates or their political party platforms, share the ideals or the objectives of the PRP. The question then we should pon­der is: which of the candidates is less likely to constrict the democratic space in Nigeria in such a way as to allow the PRP to continue to exist and to operate legally without hin­drance? In other words, which of the candidates is going to be less intolerant of parties such as PRP?”
Balarabe said the party would have supported a candi­date sponsored by a coalition of parties Credible Alternative Alliance (CAA), but unfortu­nately, he said the CAA had not been able to put forward a credible candidate that could be unanimously supported by members and as such a CAA candidate option remained only theoretical.
“The second option is to support the presidential candi­date of the PDP, that is, Good­luck Jonathan. In this respect, members will have to examine President Jonathan and the PDP’s track record of undeni­able and monumental inepti­tude, corrupt administration and political visionless against the context of what is in the national interest and the PRP’s interest in self-preservation.