The Buhari Media Organisation on
Tuesday asked security agencies to investigate what it described as the
presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar’s
“unholy romance with foreign bodies especially the United States of America, in
pursuit of a mandate he never had.”
The group made the call in a
statement by its Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju; and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke.
The organisation accused Atiku of
seeking to destabilise the country in a bid to realise his failed presidential
ambition.
It claimed that the former vice
president had been lobbying the US authorities to recognise him as Nigeria’s
President despite his electoral defeat in the February 23 election.
The BMO said Atiku’s action was
treasonable with dire consequences.
The statement read, “We had in the
past drawn attention to the desperation of the failed PDP presidential
candidate to rule Nigeria at all cost, and it is becoming more obvious with his
latest gambit.
“Not satisfied with pushing out
cooked-up figures which he and his party claimed they got from the server of
the Independent National Electoral Commission and are using as the basis of
their legal challenge at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, Alhaji
Abubakar is now using lobbyists in order to con the United States to his side.
“We at BMO are not surprised
because we had raised the alarm even before the election that the PDP elements
had been preparing ground for what they called a ‘Venezuelan option’ by
instigating the international community against the President Buhari-led
administration, and by raising all sorts of false alarms.
“Now that news has filtered out
that Atiku has hired some prominent American lawyers to lobby the US Congress
and the Executive to recognise him as President, it is shocking that a man who
rose to the position of vice president can be engaging in acts that amount to
treasonable felony, especially as the legally authorised body in election
matters, INEC, declared that he lost the presidential election.”
The group further claimed that
increasing insecurity in parts of the country was planned to make President
Muhammadu Buhari appear helpless.
It added, “We have seen how
banditry has suddenly threatened to spiral out of control in Zamfara State and
some other parts of North-Western Nigeria almost immediately after the
election.
“These are places that were
relatively peaceful before and during the election and which also had a
reasonable turn out of voters.
“It should not be a surprise that
this spectre of violence is deliberately orchestrated and coordinated as part
of a game plan to make the incumbent President look helpless and win US support
for the failed PDP presidential candidate who is not even known to be popular
in that part of the country.”
The pro-Buhari group urged the US
authorities to guard against being used by those it described as unpatriotic
Nigerians to work against an election that their representatives in the country
had hailed as largely free and fair.
It added that main local election
observer groups validated Buhari’s victory as declared by INEC.
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