The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has threatened to pull out of the peace accord it signed for the
elections.
In December, President Muhammadu
Buhari of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, joined flagbearers of other parties to
commit to peace in the elections.
But in a statement on Wednesday,
the opposition party said after due consideration of “comments, threats and
incendiary actions by the APC and the Buhari Presidency, which are directly
inimical to a peaceful, free and fair election, the PDP is left with no option
than to consider a review of its signatory in the national peace accord, if no
action is immediately taken to curb this trend”.
The party criticised Nasir
el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, for saying foreign powers who interfere in
Nigeria’s elections will return to their countries in body bags. Body bags are
used to convey corpses.
While expressing shock over the
comment, the party called on the international community to immediately impose
travel ban on el-Rufai.
“Nigerians are still in a shock
over comments by the Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, who
declared on a national television that members of the global democratic
institutions that are working for a peaceful election in Nigeria will return to
their countries in body bags. What a threat?” the party said in a statement
signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, its spokesman.
“We call on the international
community to immediately impose a travel ban on el-Rufai for this inciting
comment against peaceful elections in our country.”
PDP also kicked against the
decision of the police to redeploy Kayode Egbetokun, a police commissioner, in
Kwara state.
Ibrahim Idris, former
inspector-general of police, had been directed Egbetokun to take over Lagos police
command but Mohammed Adamu, the acting IGP reversed the appointment less than
24 hours after taking control of the force.
The opposition party said as a
former chief security office (CSO to Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the APC,
Egbetokun will be protecting the interest of the ruling party in Kwara where
Senate President Bukola Saraki is from.
“Also of particular note is the
plot to redeploy, a former Chief Security Officer to APC leader, Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu, CP Kayode Egbetokun, as Kwara state Commissioner of Police, where he
has been handed the instruction to incite the people, cause pandemonium and
pave the way for outright rigging in favour of President Buhari and all other
candidates on the platform of APC,” the statement read
T”his is in line with plans by
the Buhari Presidency and the APC to effect a mass deployment of top security
officers, particularly the police, to intimidate, harass and manhandle
Nigerians that will not support the self-succession bid of President Muhammadu
Buhari as well as aiding APC thugs to snatch ballot boxes and orchestrate
violence in the elections.
“Nigerians are aware of how CP
Kayode Egbetokun was posted to Lagos state by the disgraced former Inspector
General of Police, Idris Ibrahim, to serve the same partisan interest and how
that posting was stopped by the new IGP Adamu Mohammed. Now, he is being
redeployed to Kwara state for the same ignoble plot.
“It is necessary to state that
the PDP is a party of peace and we are committed to the peace accord. However,
the deployment of the Kayode Egbetokun as Kwara CP directly negates the
principle of the Peace Accord and can only hurt the fragile peace that
currently exists in Kwara state.
“We wish to remind the acting
Inspector General, Adamu Mohammed that his acceptability among Nigerians across
party line was based on the pedigree, which was presented to Nigerians before
his appointment.”
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