THIS IS WHAT BUHARI, APC ARE PLOTTING TO DO OTHER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES – PDP [FULL DETAILS]
THIS IS WHAT BUHARI, APC ARE PLOTTING TO DO OTHER
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES – PDP [FULL DETAILS]
POLITICS
– Latest
trending report reveal that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Wednesday
alleged that the All Progressives Congress, APC, and President Muhammadu Buhari
are plotting to “foist a one-party state”.
Meanwhile
PDP said the plot was aimed at pushing a “self succession” for Buhari “seeing
that their chances of winning the presidential election gets slimmer by the
day.”
Speaking
during a press conference in Abuja, spokesperson of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan
also claimed that the Presidency was plotting to arrest those wishing to
contest for the presidency.
According
to Ologbondiyan, “Our dear nation is now passing through her darkest hours. Our
constitutional democracy is under severe attack. Agents of fascism are on the
prowl. As we speak, Nigeria, as a nation is being pushed to the brinks and
personal freedom of citizens under our constitution is no longer guaranteed.
“Today,
in our country, there is an orchestrated plan by the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC) Federal Government to use the state apparatus of power to
coerce, emasculate and effectively decapitate opposition and other dissenting
voices, foist a one-party state and push a self-succession bid for President
Muhammadu Buhari, seeing that their chances of winning the presidential
election gets slimmer by the day.
“Currently,
the APC has fully commenced a major onslaught on leaders and key voices in the
main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), particularly our
state governors, opposition leaders in the National Assembly as well as our
presidential hopefuls.
“You
are already aware of the numerous exposed plots by the APC and its Federal
Government to frame up and humiliate the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike
Ekweremmadu, as well as PDP governors, particularly, Rivers State Governor,
Nyesom Wike and his Ekiti state counterpart, Governor Ayo Fayose.
“This
is in addition to advanced plots by the Federal Government to clampdown on key
leaders of the party and begin to drop in public places, alleged confessional
statements made under duress in the desperate attempt to achieve a
pre-determined end of validating the bandying of corruption allegations against
members of the PDP.
“We
have also been made aware of a special presidential committee put up by the APC
Federal Government to persecute our leaders. Already, no fewer than 28 cases
have been filed based on trumped up charges. Also we are privy to series of
clandestine meetings between agents of the APC and some compromised judicial
officers to get conviction at all cost.
“In the
same vein, we are in the know of plots to embarrass credible individuals,
particularly in the PDP, known or perceived to be interested in contesting the
2019 Presidential election, having realized that their party, the APC, is
finally stuck with a very unpopular and rejected Presidential candidate, who
can no longer command the support of Nigerians.”
The PDP
spokesperson alleged that the APC in a desperate attempt to win election, “is
stopping at nothing, including resort to undemocratic proclivities.”
He
said, “The world is already aware of the unrelenting Gestapo style of
persecution, arrests, detention and trial of opposition members as well as
perceived opponents of the government, including innocent business concerns,
under the guise of war against corruption.
“We are
not opposed to the fight against corruption, which, of course, was started by
our party, through the establishment of credible anti-corruption institutions.
We however demand that prosecutions must be done in a credible, transparent,
legitimate and constitutional manner. We will not allow the persecution of our
members under the guise of the fight against corruption.”