Former Minister of Transport and member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Ebenezer Babatope has said the party wants President Muhammadu Buhari to recover from his illness and seek re-election so they can trounce him in the 2019 general elections.

Babatope, who stated this while speaking to journalists called on those agitating for his resignation to desist and pray for his recovery so he can continue with his job.

“I don’t think we should compound Nigeria’s problem by asking for the President’s resignation. First of all, it’s not of his own making that he is sick. All of us must have been sick at one time or the other. If we want to help Nigeria succeed, let us pray for him to recover and come back to his job.

“We in the PDP are not bothered by his resignation at all. We are even praying that he should come back and re-contest in 2019 because we know that we are going to beat him. But it doesn’t serve anybody’s interest to ask him to resign. Those doing so are just wasting their time,” he said.