The Buhari Media
Organisation on Tuesday asked security agencies to investigate what it
described as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku
Abubakar’s “unholy romance with foreign bodies especially the United States of
America, in pursuit of a mandate he never had.”
The organisation accused
Atiku of seeking to destabilise the country in a bid to realise his ambition.
It claimed that the former
vice president had been lobbying the US authorities to recognise him as
Nigeria’s President despite his electoral defeat in the February 23 election.
The BMO said Atiku’s action was treasonable with dire consequences.
The statement read, “We had
in the past drawn attention to the desperation of the failed PDP presidential
candidate to rule Nigeria at all cost, and it is becoming more obvious with his
latest gambit.
“Not satisfied with pushing
out cooked-up figures which he and his party claimed they got from the server
of the Independent National Electoral Commission and are using as the basis of
their legal challenge at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, Alhaji
Abubakar is now using lobbyists in order to con the United States to his side.
“We at BMO are not
surprised because we had raised the alarm even before the election that the PDP
elements had been preparing ground for what they called a ‘Venezuelan option’
by instigating the international community against the President Buhari-led
administration, and by raising all sorts of false alarms.
“Now that news has filtered
out that Atiku has hired some prominent American lawyers to lobby the US
Congress and the Executive to recognise him as President, it is shocking that a
man who rose to the position of vice president can be engaging in acts that amount
to treasonable felony, especially as the legally authorised body in election
matters, INEC, declared that he lost the presidential election.”
The group further claimed
that increasing insecurity in parts of the country was planned to make
President Muhammadu Buhari appear helpless.
It added, “We have seen how
banditry has suddenly threatened to spiral out of control in Zamfara State and
some other parts of North-Western Nigeria almost immediately after the
election.
“These are places that were
relatively peaceful before and during the election and which also had a
reasonable turn out of voters.
“It should not be a
surprise that this spectre of violence is deliberately orchestrated and
coordinated as part of a game plan to make the incumbent President look
helpless and win US support for the failed PDP presidential candidate who is
not even known to be popular in that part of the country.”
The pro-Buhari group urged
the US authorities to guard against being used by those it described as
unpatriotic Nigerians to work against an election that their representatives in
the country had hailed as largely free and fair.
It added that main local
election observer groups validated Buhari’s victory as declared by INEC.
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