PDP Dares Buhari Over Threats To Arrest Atiku

by Gbade Ogunwale,

The Peoples Democratic
Party Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO) has dared President
Muhammadu Buhari on the threats to arrest the presidential candidate of
the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Information and Culture Minister,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed had, at a media briefing in Abuja on Friday, hinted
that Atiku, who travelled to the United States on Thursday, would be
arrested on his return to the country.

But the PDP has described
the planned arrest as laughable and a heinous plot to frame Atiku, out
of fear that he is already coasting to victory in the February 16
presidential election.

Addressing a media conference in Abuja on
Friday, spokesman for the PDP Presidential Campaign, Kola Ologbondiyan,
said President Buhari and the APC were already jittery over Atiku’s
soaring popularity ahead of the elections.

“It is reprehensible
that Mr. President will descend abysmally low to fabricate outright lies
and falsehood in a bid to discredit a more qualified and acceptable
Presidential candidate”, Ologbondiyan said.

The PDP campaign
spokesman added that Atiku has nothing to do with the alleged issues
leading to the collapse of Bank PHB, stressing that the PDP presidential
candidate is an honest and hardworking Nigerian who has no skeleton of
any sort in his cupboard.

Ologbondiyan further stated, “For
emphasis, even the Chairman of President Buhari’s Advisory Committee
Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, had since told the world that the
Buhari Presidency has searched everywhere and could not find anything
incriminating on Atiku Abubakar.

“The world already knows that
this attempt to mudsling our Presidential candidate is coming out of
President Buhari’s frustration over Atiku Abubakar’s successful outing
in the United States, for which the Buhari Presidency has gone into full
hallucination.

“This is in addition to their frenzied
face-saving effort to divert public attention from President Buhari’s
humiliating appearances in the respective rallies and Television shows
he has had.

“The PPCO however, counsels President Buhari and the
APC to note that Nigerians can see through their lies, fabrications and
frustration and that their scheme against Atiku Abubakar is already dead
on arrival.

“If anything, the PPCO will want President Buhari to
open the books and provide explanation for the N9 trillion stolen under
his watch as Minister of Petroleum Resources as detailed in the leaked
NNPC memo.

“President Buhari should as well, allow an open
inquest into the alleged involvement of his relations in the N1.032
trillion alleged corrupt acquisitions in 9Mobile and Keystone Bank PLC.

“Finally,
the PPCO states that the PDP Presidential candidate, our great party
and indeed all Nigerians, who have already reached a national consensus
to vote-in Atiku Abubakar as the next President of our country, will not
be distracted by this unfounded allegation by the rejected President
Buhari and his handlers”.

Source:- Thenationonlineng