The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO) said Nigeria is in a perilous time and charged National Peace Committee, the United Nations to save the nation from imminent collapse by calling President Muhammadu Buhari to order to enable free, fair and credible election in February.
PDP Spokesperson and PPCO Media and Publicity director, Kola Ologbondiyan while addressing journalists yesterday in Abuja, noted that “we the whole world to know that Nigeria is in a perilous time. President Muhammadu Buhari’s desperation for self-succession has become the major threat to our national unity, stability and peaceful electoral process.
Ologbondiyan who claimed that, the Buhari Presidency is seeking ways to enmesh the electoral process in crisis, also accused President Buhari of overheating the polity “with its unending manipulations of INEC, muzzling of free speech and escalated clampdown on opposition and Civil Society Organizations and we insist that such must stop if we must have a peaceful election.
The PPCO media and Publicity director insisted that “there is no way peace can be guaranteed without a free and fair election. Already, Nigerians across the board are livid with anger over the foisting of Mrs. Amina Zakari, President Buhari’s relation, to head the collation of Presidential election results.
“President Buhari’s insistence on having his relation in charge of collation of Presidential election results is completely provocative, a direct affront to the sensibilities of Nigerians and express invitation to crisis of epic proportion, which is capable of truncating the entire electoral process and derailing our hard-earned democracy, he said.
Ologbondiyan also revealed that, ” the party is aware of plots by the Presidency to use Amina Zakari, who has been mentioned as part of those involved in the rigging oft 2018 governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states, to plunge the 2019 general elections into controversies, truncate the flow of results and even render elections in some critical states inconclusive, to pave way for allocation of fictitious votes to President Buhari and the APC.
“We want the National Peace Committee and the entire world to know that as long as Amina Zakari is in INEC, a peaceful election is not guaranteed because she has the mandate to abuse the process and this will not be accepted by Nigerians, he added.
