The Presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has, in what he
described as a warning to both President Muhammadu Buhari and the All
Progressives Congress, APC, said that there would be no room for rigging on
February 16th especially as he said that the world is watching the developments
in the country.
In
a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by his Special Assistant on Public
Communication, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, in response to the Federal Government’s
reaction to the US, UK and EU over the suspension of the Chief Justice of
Nigeria, CJN, Walter Onnoghen, the former Vice President warned that anyone
planning to rig the 2019 election may as well be toying with the very
foundation of the nation’s democracy.
According
to the statement, “Buhari’s cabal is unhappy with the statements from the
US, the British and the EU because they know that these world powers have
agreed to re-route their latest and most technologically sophisticated
spy satellites, including the NAOL-47 satellite, to provide comprehensive
coverage over Nigeria on February 16. The photographs which these
satellites will deliver can not only show someone reading a newspaper but also
which newspaper they are reading.”
He
said “the Federal Government had in statement through Garba Shehu stated
that, ‘the nation’s security forces will confront any attempt to interfere with
the process by elements from outside the country.’”
The
PDP candidate expressed concerns over what he described as “the desperation of
the APC to rig the forthcoming elections.”
He
however, advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the
military and the police not to allow themselves to be used by those he said are
interested in turning Nigeria’s democracy on its head.
According
to him, “The truth is that, there is no country in the world where a president
with this appalling record could ever be re-elected. Over 100 million
Nigerians cannot afford even one decent meal a day, yet their president is
seeking re-election.
“The
world powers, as well as Nigerians, also have intelligence that Buhari will
decisively lose the elections since the people are angry because they are
hungry and have no jobs.
“There
is no level of rigging that this vile government could ever do to overturn the
millions of Nigerians who will turn up at the polls to vote him out.
“We
ask our dearest young population who got a job under Buhari in the last
four (4)years, to vote for Buhari. But all those who lost their jobs and
whose relations lost their jobs and businesses to his maladministration should
please come out in large numbers to elect Atiku Abubabar who is a harbinger of
job creation,” the statement said.
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