Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has asked Nigerians to vote out President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2019 general election in order to rescue Nigeria from becoming a failed state.

Speaking at the Ebonyi State secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as part of consultations for his presidential aspiration, Saraki stated that President Buhari lacked intellectual capacity to fix Nigeria’s problems.

Saraki said no one had the capacity to give what he or she did not have, insisting that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) lacked capacity to tackle any of the critical challenges currently facing the nation.

“We have shown what we can do together in the last three years. You all know where Nigeria is today and we are all concerned about the future. The country as you know at this point is at the crossroads.

“It is much divided and it has never been so. We are all concerned about the security of our lives. We are all concerned about the jobs, poverty and lack of job for our people. Many youths today don’t have any job and the future is not looking good and we don’t have time to wait.

“For me it has never been any personal ambition. We have continued to fight for the right of the people, for justice, for freedom and for this democracy. We have gone through a lot, not only me, even your own son here like Ekweremadu, all in the interest of standing for what is right.

“We have stood in the National Assembly for what we believe is right and in the process we have gone through a lot but we have believed in God and those of you who are supporting us.

“Today everybody in Nigeria will say what Senate has done as we have raised the level of the Senate; the Senate that cares for the people and that listens to the people. Today we believed it is time we changed the leadership in the executive, the presidency of this country.

“It is time that we had a president that when he stands and speaks, you will be proud that, that is my president. It is time that you had a president that understands the issues, that knows where the shoe is pinching, that knows where you can get the jobs, that knows, identifies and associates with the youths, that when he stands you know this is the president of the youth.”

Saraki further assured Nigerians that he was ready to fight corruption to a standstill and not the way it was being handled selectively by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

“What you are seeing in Ebonyi is not by chance, it is because your governor has capacity that is why you are witnessing development. How then can you choose a man with capacity in your state without choosing also a leader with capacity at the national level?

“We will fight poverty. We will fight corruption too and not selective corruption fight. We will develop solid minerals in Ebonyi State. We will bring private investors into the country and turn around youth involvement in governance by bringing youths to governance,” he added.