An unusual large crowd on Saturday welcomed the Gen Muhammadu Buhari (rtd)’s All Progressives Congress (APC)’s presidential train to Ilorin, the Kwara state capital.

The train which touched ground at the Ilorin International Airport at about 10:40 am could not get to the Emir of Ilorin’s palace until around 12: 41 pm; a distance of less than five kilometers.

This was due to the mammoth crowd of supporters that thronged the airport and also lined the road that leads to the palace.

The presidential team which comprised of Gen Buhari, his running Prof Yemi Osinbajo, National Leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Governors of Kwara, Osun and Rivers state, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and Chibuike Amaechi eventually arrived the Metropolitan Square venue of the event at about 1.35 pm.

Their arrival threw the whole arena into ecstasy as shout of Buhari and Ahmed rented the air.

Addressing the crowd Gen Buhari said that the desperation in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is frightening.

He added that “there is so much resources in their hands and with their coercive resources at their command, we have a problem and God’s willing we will overcome that problem.”

He said a vote for PDP is tantamount to ruining the future of the country and in coming generations.

The general said: “The most important thing is that you should vote. Make sure you get your permanent voter cards and on the election day you come out and make sure you vote and that your vote counts. If you allow the PDP by any chance to continue to run this country, you are ruining yourselves and you are ruining your country.