Buhari Campaign Organisation Reports Atiku To EU, AU Over ‘Undemocratic Tendencies’

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Buhari Campaign Organisation reports Atiku to EU, AU over ‘undemocratic tendencies’

Chijioke Jannah Chijioke Jannah
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The
Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO) has written to the international
community to caution the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.

Specifically, the presidential campaign group petitioned the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU).

The
group urged them to prevail upon Atiku to jettison his plan of going to
court to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election.

In
separate letters addressed to the heads of EU and AU Observation
Missions in Nigeria, BCO noted that the international bodies must act
fast to save the country’s democracy from what it described as Atiku’s
inequitable conduct despite the reports of fairness in the just
concluded polls by international observers.

In the letters made
available to journalists in Abuja on Sunday by its Director of
Communications and Strategic Planning, Mallam Gidado Ibrahim, the BCO
said Atiku ought to have congratulated President Buhari instead of
yielding to PDP’s politics of bitterness.

The group pointed out
that Buhari’s magnanimity in victory, which was demonstrated in his
appeal to his supporters not to humiliate the opposition was enough
reason for Atiku to repent of his obstinacy and congratulate the
president on his reelection.

BCO said: “We are writing to
inform you of the undemocratic tendencies of the presidential candidate
of the main opposition party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, who has chosen to
take the electoral process in Nigeria backward after a peaceful and
credible presidential and National Assembly elections conducted
penultimate Saturday.

“In spite of reports by foreign observers
acknowledging the polls as free, fair and peaceful, the opposition party
and its candidate have chosen to discredit the entire process and make
the Observation Missions look as if they are biased in their assessment
of the just concluded presidential poll.

“Apart from blatantly
refusing to congratulate the winner of the said poll, President
Muhammadu Buhari, the PDP and its candidate have taken the battle to
court apparently to cause distractions with a view to slowing down the
wheels of governance in the country.

“The PDP is still
inciting the Nigerian public against the government of the day
irrespective of the fact that President Buhari had been magnanimous in
victory. He has pledged to run an all-inclusive government and has even
urged us, his supporters, not to gloat or humiliate the opposition, an
enjoinder we have adhered strictly to the letter.

“We deem it fit
to draw your attention to this brazen attempt to frustrate the
democratic process, hoping that you will intervene by calling the PDP
and its presidential candidate to order and ensure that the tenets of
democracy are adhered to in the ongoing electoral process in Nigeria.

“Atiku
should follow former President Goodluck Jonathan’s example. Nobody’s
life should be sacrificed for any politician’s ambition. He should abide
by the agreement signed by all presidential candidates with the
National Peace Committee to accept the results of the just concluded
presidential poll in good faith.

“Nigeria has, in the past
witnessed enough shedding of the blood of innocent Nigerians. If Atiku
wants to help Nigerians, he should work with the Buhari-led government
for a prosperous nation. He should not set Nigeria aflame with his
inordinate ambition and insatiable thirst for power.”

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