PDP Attacks Buhari Over Revolution Prediction

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the declaration by General Muhammadu Buhari that if the PDP does not abort its corruption and stop short-changing Nigerians, a revolution in the country is simply a matter of time. 
The former military Head of State and Presidential flag bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) made the remarks at the weekend.
In his reaction, Olisa Metuh, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, described Buhari as a despot who has never hidden his disdain for elected government. 
“Buhari’s statement did not come to us as surprise,” Metuh said.  “It is a sure sign of frustrations over his inability and that of his Party to win elections. Besides, it is a signature tune of all despots who despite pretences to new ideology often betray the old habit that hardly dies.”
In his remarks, Buhari had in addition to raising the consequences of the vast corruption in the PDP accused the party and its leadership of refusal to accept the concept of social justice.  “If there is no social justice, in a question of time there will be revolution in one form or the other,” he said.
Metuh’s swift response did not focus on any of these issues.  “What revolution is Buhari looking for?” he asked.   “If after truncating democratic process in 1984, General Buhari today enjoys the fundamental tenets of democracy as in freedom of speech which he denied Nigerians, what revolution is greater?”
He praised President Goodluck Jonathan’s “transformation agenda,” passage of the Electoral Act, and the Freedom of Information Act.  “What is revolutionary if [Buhari] must know further is the transparency of on-going probes by the National Assembly, which is a firm step in the fight against corruption”. 
According to Chief Metuh, “We know that Gen. Buhari is artful in truncating elected governments. His three -time failure on the platform of different political Parties to win election is driving him to the old habit. Unfortunately for him, Nigerians are not interested in his type of revolution.”
It would be recalled that only last Monday, the PDP similarly attacked another former military leader, General Ibrahim Babangida, for questioning the character of its current leadership.  Chief Metuh described as a “surprise and a huge disappointment” Babangida’s rejection of the “electoral consensus option” through which President Jonathan had manipulated the convention to give the party chairmanship to Dr. Bamanga Turkur. 
“Electoral consensus option” is the PDP’s euphemism for a rigged process where laid-down rules are tossed aside and candidates for an election are blackmailed or muzzled out in favour of a pre-chosen ca