Atiku Must Pick Up His Phone To Call President Buhari – Keyamo

Atiku and Buhari Photos: Channels TV/Sodiq Adelakun

The
All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council Director,
Strategic Communications, Festus Keyamo, has called on the Peoples
Democratic Party and its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to call
President Muhammadu Buhari and congratulate him on his maintaining
lead.

In a statement by the campaign spokesman, Keyamo urged the
opposition party to call President Buhari, if they feel they have lost
the Presidential elections.

“This is not the time to sacrifice
the country for personal ambition. If they feel they have lost (as their
statement clearly indicates), Atiku Abubakar must pick up his phone to
make that famous call to President Muhammadu Buhari. The world is
watching him and so are Nigerians”.

Read Full Statement Below:

We
have just read with great consternation the Press Statement of the
National Chairman of PDP rejecting the results as being announced
presently by INEC in Abuja.

The simple questions we ask the PDP and Atiku’s Campaign team are as follows:

(1)
How come the PDP is rejecting results that have not been fully
and completely announced? How can one reject the result of an
uncompleted game? The process of an election does not end until the
final collation and announcement of results.

(3) If indeed
they are only rejecting areas where they lost, are they implying that
it is only in areas where they won that can be adjudged free and fair
and all areas where they lost must be adjudged rigged? Is that the
mentality of true democrats?

In the PDP statement, it is curious
that they rejected the results as being announced, yet they claim they
are coasting to victory. What kind of logic is that? What kind of
confusion is now reigning in the minds of the top hierarchy of the PDP
that they can spew such illogicality?

It is now obvious that the
top hierarchy of the PDP is hysterical and nervous. We urge them to calm
down. Obviously, this is the first time they are sensing a massive loss
of an election as an opposition party.

It is a new experience
for them. They are confused and disoriented. For many years, they were
used to manipulating the instruments of State to just write results and
announce themselves as winners. As such they have a sense of entitlement
to these instruments of State that they could not fully manipulate this
time because President Muhammadu Buhari insisted on a level plain field
for all.

We advise the PDP that as an opposition party for many
years, we have been down this road before. This is not the time to
sacrifice the country for personal ambition. If they feel they have lost
(as their statement clearly indicates), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar must pick
up his phone to make that famous call to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The world is watching him and so are Nigerians.

Finally, we urge
INEC, Nigerians and our international friends not to be swayed by these
infantile antics of the PDP. The process of collation and announcement
that is on-going should be done to its logical conclusion after which
anyone who is aggrieved should take full advantage of the provisions of
the law.

Source:- ChannelsTV