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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Let me ask you APC in which of the elections that Buhari lost did he congratulate the winner? Did he not go to court? Why then will you not allow Atiku to exercise his right to go to court to determine who won? And in an election where over 30 people died and hundreds, thousands and even millions of votes were deducted from PDP and added to APC you dare to say the elections were peaceful and fair. Its only God that will judge you.
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