Breaking: Atiku presents 6-point demand to Buhari
The
Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in last
week’s election, Alh. Atiku Abubakar has presented a six-point demand to
the federal government . Top on the demand was unfreezing of opposition
politicians’ bank accounts.
Another major demanded presented to
former Head of State and Chairman of the National Peace Committee, Gen.
Abdulsalam Abubakar (rtd) was demilitarisarion of sequent polls. Gen.
Abubakar led members of the committee to a meeting with Atiku and his
running mate, Mr. Peter Obi in Abuja yesterday night. The NPC was
expected to meet President Muhammadu Buhari government with the demands .
Other demands by Atiku were:
*That accreditation of voters should take place before voting in subsequent elections.
*That there should be no deployment of the military in subsequent elections.
* That INEC should open its back end server to all participating parties.
*That there should be a release of all politicians detained illegally by FG.
A
source at the meeting disclosed that Atiku “warned that tensions are
building up in the land.” NPC team included Cardinal John Onaiyekan,
Bishop Kukah and Rev. Fr Atta Barkindo of the NPC secretariat.
Atiku
and his team informed the group that the election of Feb 23 was the
worst in 20 years of the return to democratic rule. That it was marked
by brazen rigging with no consideration to the will of the people.
They listed the following as the issues they had with the polls:
*Deployment of the military was unconstitutional and in breach of Supreme Court judgement.
*That
resultantly, a lot of malpractices between the INEC officers, the
ruling party and the military took place to undermine the votes/voters
of the PDP.
*That there was collaboration between INEC and FG to undermine the sanctity of the votes of the people.
*That this is the worst election in 20 years. No improvement from 2015.
It
was learnt that Gen. Abdusalam and his team pleaded with the PDP flag
bearer to avoid anything that could jeopardise the nation’s peaceful
co-existence.
Source:- Vanguardngr

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