Atiku’s Venezuela option treasonable, says BMO



The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has accused PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar of seeking to destabilise the country by lobbying the US authorities and other European nations to recognise him as the elected president of Nigeria.

The organisation has, therefore, urged security agencies to investigate Atiku’s unholy romance with foreign bodies in pursuit of his failed mandate.

According to the body, Atiku has been lobbying the US authorities to recognise him as authentic president even though he lost the February 23 presidential election to President Muhammadu Buhari.

In a statement in Abuja Monday and signed by its Coordinator Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, the organisation said the step taken by the former vice president was a treasonable act that has its dire consequences.

“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 (INEC), and are using as the basis of their legal challenge at the Presidential Election Petition 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 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.

“And 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 beggars belief that a man who rose to the position of vice president could engaged 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 said.

Also, it deplored Atiku ploy presenting himself as the man to prevent ‘genocide, poverty, corruption and strife’ in Nigeria in other to win the favour and support of the American government.

“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 unpatriotic Nigerians to work against an election that their representative in the country had hailed as largely free and fair.

“We now wonder why Atiku Abubakar would take his desperation to the extent of seeking a Venezuelan-style US intervention in an election that he lost overwhelmingly, and at a time he has filed a legal challenge to the outcome of the election”.

BMO also urged Nigerians to be prepared to defend the mandate they freely and overwhelmingly gave to President Buhari in February.

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