Former Deputy National Publicity
Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has
accused the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai and the military
high command of a plot to kill him.
Frank in a statement on Friday
said it was sad to note that the Army under Buratai has degenerated to this
abysmal level of partnership.
He added that the Army and
Buratai have just shown to be the peddlers of fake news themselves by ”putting
out my name in such a manner.”
Frank stated that the military is
not comfortable with him for constantly revealing clandestine midnight meetings
between Buratai, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) and President Muhammadu Buhari, where they plotted to rig the 2019
elections in favour of the APC which they have now done.
Frank said: “Buratai is after my
life for speaking truth to power. I want Nigerians and the international
community to hold Buratai and the military responsible should any harm befall
me in the years ahead as the army chief has vowed to bring me down wherever he
finds me. But God shall thwart the counsel of the ungodly.
“I insist that Buratai and the
Chairman of INEC have been holding nocturnal meetings with President Buhari on
how to achieve unearned victory for the APC during the elections which they
have now done.
“Let Buratai tell Nigerians if he
ever had any midnight meeting with the President and the INEC chair in the
run-up to the last two successive elections instead of blackmailing and calling
me names.
“But despite all of this
intimidation, harassment, blackmail and name calling against my person, I
remain undeterred. I will continue to expose their crimes against Nigerians and
the nation’s democratic process by using its men to subvert the express will
and choice of who governs them in favour of highly placed individuals in the
governing APC.”
He noted that European Union (EU)
Election Observation Mission, the International Republican Institute (IRI), the
National Democratic Institute (NDI) and other foreign and local election
monitors, have reported how the elections were hugely marred by military
personnel and this is public knowledge.
He said: “Besides, countless
video, audio and photo evidence exist online detailing some of the heinous
atrocities of the military during the elections, yet Buratai and the military
want Nigerians to believe that I am a “Protagonist of Fake News” for revealing
beforehand their plans to hijack the nation’s political and electoral processes
in favour of APC.
“Rather than seeking to kill,
silence or liquidate me for putting before Nigerians and the world information
that they have not been able to controvert, let Buratai and the military
apologize to Nigerians for deceiving them via fake news and propaganda that
Boko Haram had been defeated, degraded and Sambisa forest liberated.
“Even little children across
Nigeria know that despite the spurious claims by the military, Boko Haram has
continued to wax strong and sinister – killing, maiming, displacing and
kidnapping scores of innocent Nigerians on a regular basis.
“Apart, from the Northeast states
of Borno and Yobe still under incessant attacks from the insurgents, they have
extended their theatre of operations to include otherwise peaceful states in
the Northwest like Zamfara, Katsina, Sokoto and Kaduna.
“Buratai and the military should
apologize to Nigerians for being the greatest harbinger of fake news and
propaganda in the country by spreading wholesale lies that Boko Haram had been
defeated, including the presentation of a fake Boko Haram flag to President
Buhari with claims that Sambisa Forest has been liberated.
He called on the International
Criminal Court (ICC) to hold to account Buratai and all military personnel
found to have engaged in the mindless killing and maiming of innocent Nigerians
in a bid to rig the just-concluded elections in favour of President Buhari and
the APC.
He also called on the EU and the
United States to expedite their promise to place visa restriction on those who
promoted or perpetuated violence and rigging during the last elections
especially top military personnel, APC stalwarts and members of their families.
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