The Nuhu Ribadu Campaign Organisation has described the statements credited to President Goodluck Jonathan as “unbecoming of a President” and “one that smacks of desperation.”

President Jonathan while flagging off his south west presidential campaign in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital claimed that his party, the PDP “must” win the south west and salvage the region from “rascals.”

In a statement by Ibrahim Modibbo, it’s Director of Media and Communications, the organization stated that President Jonathan had “finally shown Nigerians how desperate he is to remain in power by resorting to name calling and character assassination instead of addressing issues that bother on the welfare of Nigerians and the people of the south west in particular.

“We recognise the Presidents dilemma. Of course he knows that both he and his fellow PDP governors in the south west have no achievements to brandish. They have no alternative to proffer to the positive changes being witnessed by the people in Lagos, Ekiti and Osun.

“It is however unbecoming of the President that in his frustration at the failure of him and his party to provide good governance to the people of the region and all Nigerians, he would resort to name calling.”

Modibbo also advised President Jonathan to use the opportunity of his campaigns to apologise to Nigerians for the 12 years of misrule and mis-governance that he and his party, the PDP have subjected Nigerians to.

“One would have thought that the President would use the opportunity of his presence to apologise to the people of the Southwest and indeed to all Nigerians about the failure of the PDP governors and the federal government,”

The President should have been man enough to apologise to the Yoruba’s that his party, the PDP, after mismanaging the opportunity they had from 2003 to 2007 to provide good governance in the 5 south west states they controlled , went ahead to steal the peoples votes and manipulate the electoral process in 2007,” Modibbo stated.

The Ribadu campaign organisation also questioned the moral right the President or any other PDP stalwart had in referring to the progressive leaders of the south west as rascals.

“When supporters of a PDP governor and supporters of a PDP senate leader engaged in a gun duel in the same Ibadan killing three people, the President did not refer to them as rascals. When minority PDP state legislators in Ogun, in an historic feat, sacked the majority members of the parliament, the President did not call them rascals.”

“Even in the Presidents home state of Bayelsa, when supporters of the PDP governor attacked supporters of Mr. President’s former adviser, killing six people, the president did not refer to anybody as rascals. On what basis can he now refer to anyone as a rascal,” Modibbo stated.

The organisation therefore urged all the people of the Southwest to continue to show support for purposeful leadership that the ACN provides.

“When the ACN picked Mallam Nuhu Ribadu as its presidential candidate, the party signified its intention to take to the federal government the positive transformation going on in Lagos, Edo, Ekiti and Osun Sates. The people of the south west like all other Nigerians know that the PDP has failed and this will be manifested again to the PDP and President Jonathan during the general elections.”