APC, Presidency In Fresh Plot To Set Up Atiku – PDP NWC

APC, Presidency in fresh plot to set up Atiku – PDP NWC

The
National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
Thursday said no amount of fabrications, attempt at set-up as well as
veiled and open threats allegedly by the All Progressives Congress,
APC-led federal government can stop its Presidential candidate in the
2019 election, Atiku Abubakar from reclaiming his mandate at the
tribunal.

President Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar
This
is even as the party rejected in its entirety, “the declaration by the
Presidency that Atiku Abubakar is “lucky to be walking free”, adding
that such a statement was inciting and “brings to the fore the
unwholesome intention of the APC-led administration against Atiku
Abubakar for seeking to retrieve his stolen mandate at the court.”

In
a statement signed by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan on Thursday, the
PDP said it was aware “that the series of orchestrations against Atiku
Abubakar and the PDP by agents of the federal government, officials of
the Presidency and the Buhari Media Organization, BMO, expose a
well-coordinated plot, which includes a resort to unfounded claims of
links with a foreign lobby group, to attempt to frame Atiku Abubakar,
cause tension and ultimately derail the recovery of the stolen mandate
at the Presidential election tribunal.”

The statement added that
“such orchestration are also targeted at instilling fear, cause
apprehension in the citizenry and create opening to further suppress
genuine public opinion and the course of justice in the quest by Atiku
Abubakar and the PDP to restore the will of the people.”

The
statement continued: “Part of the motive is to use lies, fabrications,
threats and sponsoring of Atiku campaign posters to portray Atiku
Abubakar and the PDP as being desperate and ready to subvert the rules
in the pursuit of our mandate; and by so doing discredit our candidate
in the eyes of the judiciary and the public in general.

“This
explains why agents of the APC-led government fabricated and pushed into
the public space, bogus and laughable claims that Atiku Abubakar paid
$30,000 to a US lobby group to assist in the quest to reclaim our
mandate only for the Federal Government and the Presidency to turn
around to feast on the fabrications with threats against Atiku Abubakar.

“The
PDP calls on Nigerians to take copious note of threats by the
Presidency through the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari
on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, to jail Atiku Abubakar based on
trumped up allegations, while describing him as “one who is lucky to be
walking free.

“Nigerians now know who to hold responsible should
any harm come to Atiku Abubakar, his family or any member of the PDP
Presidential Campaign Organization, PPCO, in the course of the pursuit
of the mandate at the tribunal.

“Moreover, it is instructive to
state that the PDP and Atiku Abubakar do not need any foreign lobby
group to prove our case before the tribunal as Nigerians themselves have
been at the forefront of this pursuit, especially with our overwhelming
evidence before the court.

“The PDP therefore cautions the
APC-led Federal Government to allow the tribunal to judiciously carry
out its responsibilities without let or hindrance as well as stop their
unrelenting plots to overheat the system and derail the course of
justice as such will all come to naught.”

Source:- Vanguardngr