APC Alleges Plot To Disqualify Buhari

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) plans to get Muhammadu Buhari disqualified from the presidential race so that there would be riots and postponement of the polls.

In a statement on Thursday, APCPCO alleged that the PDP wanted to get a court to pronounce that Buhari, the APC presidential candidate, lied under oath in saying that the military had his certificates.

The military denied being in possession of the certificates in a saga that has continued to dominate the campaign.

Garba Shehu, APCPCO’s director of media and publicity, said a federal high court judge had been hired to do a “dirty hatchet job”.

He said the PDP calculation was that the disqualification of the APC candidate would “precipitate spontaneous violent protests across the country”. He also said President Goodluck Jonathan would then declare a six-month state of emergency across the country and postpone the elections.

Shehu also alleged that the three-week long strike action by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) was prodded by the PDP-led federal government “to stymie any higher court upturning of the lower court pronouncement which ruled on President Jonathan’s eligibility to contest the February 14 election”.

He further alleged that the same trade union “has been procured” to open the court to allow the disqualification of Buhari. “We are aware of the intense desperation of the PDP-led Federal government of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in desiring to retain political power at all costs despite his and his party’s overwhelming rejection by the Nigerian people, ahead of the 2015 general election.

“We have brought this wicked plot of the PDP-led government to the attention of Nigerians, from whom any government derives its legitimacy. Nigeria cannot be thrown into chaos because of the selfish and callous desire of a tiny cabal to goad the Nigerian people into its destructive path. The governance of the Nigerian people by any person or group of persons must have the assent of the Nigerian people,” Shehu said.

TheCable