The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, has reacted to reports that its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar,
paid $30,000 to a United States, US, lobby group to assist in the quest to
reclaim his mandate.
A research group based in the US,
Centre for Responsive Politics, CRP had claimed that Abubakar was lobbying the
United States government not to recognise anyone but him as Nigeria’s
president-elect.
CRP, in a report released last
week, alleged that Abubakar was making this effort through some Washington DC
lawyers engaged in a 90-day contract worth $30,000.
However, the former ruling party
described the report as tissues of lies.
In a statement by its
spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Thursday, PDP insisted that agents of the
All Progressives Congress, APC-led government were behind the allegation.
According to Ologbondiyan: “The
motive is to use lies, fabrications, threats and sponsoring of Atiku campaign
posters to portray Atiku Abubakar and the PDP as being desperate and ready to
subvert the rules in the pursuit of our mandate; and by so doing discredit our
candidate in the eyes of the judiciary and the public in general.
“This explains why agents of the
APC-led government fabricated and pushed into the public space, bogus and
laughable claims that Atiku Abubakar paid $30,000 to a US lobby group to assist
in the quest to reclaim our mandate only for the Federal
Government and the Presidency to turn around to feast on the fabrications with
threats against Atiku Abubakar.”
PDP also urged Nigerians to hold
Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie responsible
should anything happen to Abubakar.
“Moreover, it is instructive to
state that the PDP and Atiku Abubakar do not need any foreign lobby group to
prove our case before the tribunal as Nigerians themselves have been at the
forefront of this pursuit, especially with our overwhelming evidence before the
court.
“We therefore caution the APC-led
Federal Government to allow the tribunal to judiciously carry out its
responsibilities without let or hindrance as well as stop their unrelenting
plots to overheat the system and derail the course of justice as such will all
come to naught,” it said.
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