The Presidency, yesterday, told former Vice President and
2023 Presidential Candidate of the Peoples democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar to stop crying wolf over the court judgments that sacked Plateau State
Governor, Caleb Mutfwang and other elected National Assembly members, saying
that the PDP was the architect of its problems.
The Presidency warned Atikut and the PDP to stop pointing
accusing fingers at President Bola Tinubu over the court judgments in Plateau,
Zamfara and Nasarawa states, alleging that the main opposition party caused its
problems by failing to observe the letters and spirits of the law, in choosing
its flag bearers for the elections.
A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President
on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, denied Atiku’s allegation that President Tinubu was planning
to impose a one-party state, saying the PDP and Atiku “threw caution to the
winds as they assaulted the integrity of the judiciary and made wild and
libelous allegations against President Tinubu.”
Onanuga in the statement titled: “PDP, Atiku raising false
alarm,” said: “In the wake of the poor run of some elected governors of the
party at the appeal court, the PDP and former Vice President and his spokesman
have become overtly desperate to hang their woes on President Tinubu and the
judiciary, an important arm of government in Nigeria.
“In blaming others, Atiku and his party have failed to
demonstrate whether they had done any soul-searching before going public with
their weighty, specious, reckless and irresponsible allegations.
“While we do not hold brief for the judiciary, we urge
Nigerians to discountenance the malicious allegations by the PDP and its
candidate that President Tinubu as governor of Lagos, silenced the opposition
and corrupted the judiciary and that he is planning to foist a one-party state
on the country by appointing “loyalists” as Resident Electoral Commissioners
(RECs).
“President Tinubu is a democrat to the core. We make bold to
say that as president, he has not interfered with the judgment of the
judiciary. We had witnessed how under his watch the PDP governor in Osun
defeated the APC at the Supreme Court. Similarly, the PDP Governor in Bauchi
also won his case in the Appeal court, beating the APC.
“President Tinubu is also not planning to impose a one-party
state as Atiku has serially alleged and his party and spokesman have now
parroted. These allegations are deliberately aimed at unnecessarily heating up
the polity and causing disenchantment in our country. They exist only in the
imagination of the PDP and the former vice-president.”
Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
Which politician to the core?
ReplyDeleteAfter stolen mandate. If this is the example a leader will want its followers to emulate, then sorry for the future. How many generations will remember him for good.Dont forget God is not blind.For there's a way that seems right but end is destruction.