Presidential candidate of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has raised serious
allegation against President Muhammadu Buhari accusing the president of
plotting to put him in jail.
Atiku was reacting to a
statement by the minister of information, Lai Mohammed, who claimed the former
vice president has been making treasonable statements.
Atiku said: “My attention
has been drawn to accusations by the Muhammadu Buhari led administration
against the candidate of the Presidential Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019
elections and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, alleging that
he has made treasonable statements.
“It is not surprising that
such a despicable lie is emanating from Mr. Lai Mohammed, President Buhari’s
aptly named Minister of Information.
“Lai Mohammed is so
associated with lies that even Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said, on Monday,
May 13, 2019, as follows:
“People like Lai Mohammed,
Abba Kyari, Adamu Adamu they are usually very well behaved during the Ramadan.
But I’m not even sure that that is true anymore.”
“When we have a situation
where even those who employed him know that Lai Mohammed is a liar, who will
even lie during the holy month of Ramadan, then why should Nigerians be
surprised at this latest lie?
“Mr Lai Mohammed is only
being clever by half when he says “It beggars belief that a candidate who
prides himself as a democrat can so allow desperation to becloud his sense of
propriety to such an extent that he will be associating with anti-democratic
forces or making inflammatory statements.”
The statement described
Atiku as a man of peace who would never get involved in undemocratic
activities. It however described President Buhari as a desperate man who dined
with dictators.
“How can a man who wined
and dined with Nigeria’s most brutal dictator, how can a man who overthrew a
democratically elected President and held a grudge against him even in death
(as evidenced by the empty condolence register he left in Sokoto, last year)
accuse a man who has never been as much as associated with such tendencies, of
being an anti-democrat?
“We want to know why the
desperation on the part of the Muhammadu Buhari government to rope in the
Peoples Democratic Party and its Presidential candidate in phantom plots?
Obviously, President Buhari wants to replay the Phantom plot saga of his now
deceased mentor, who threw former President Olusegun Obasanjo in jail after falsely
accusing him of treason in order to perpetuate himself in power.
“Could it be that they are
now aware that the electoral fraud they perpetrated during the last
Presidential election is about to be exposed beyond a shadow of a doubt?
“If anybody is “beating the
drums of war”, it is precisely those who have issued statements threatening
Nigerians and foreigners alike with “body bags”.
“For the avoidance of doubt,
let me inform the minister of disinformation that Atiku Abubakar resisted the
Abacha dictatorship, of which President Muhammadu Buhari was a prominent
member, and it is his resistance and the sacrifice of his co-travellers, like
chief MKO Abiola and Alex Ekwueme, amongst others, that gave rise to the
democracy that the current government is now trampling on.”
Meanwhile, the Oba of
Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu on Wednesday, May 15, said the election of President
Muhammadu Buhari for a second-term in office was a clear proof that no man, but
God gives power.
Akiolu made the statement
when participants of the Senior Executive Course 41 of the National Institute
of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, visited him in his palace in
Lagos. .
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