
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Friday accused President Muhammadu
Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, of compromising
the territorial integrity of the country.
It also called for investigation to uncover why some aliens from Niger Republic came to grace a political event held in Kano.
PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan said this in a press conference held in Abuja.
He said, “The PDP holds that the 2019 general election is only for
Nigerians. There is no way our citizens will allow foreigners to
participate in our electoral process.
“For a nation contending with insurgency and banditry, the
involvement of mercenaries from neighbouring countries in the APC rally
must be condemned by all and sundry.
“This is particularly against the backdrop of claims by President
Buhari that killer herdsmen ravaging our nation are mercenaries who are
infiltrating from the Sahel region.
“President Buhari and the APC, in their desperation, have compromised
our territorial integrity as a nation and this portends grave danger to
our national security and the sanctity of our electoral process.
“Nigerians can now see the unfolding of the plots by agents the APC
to use mercenaries from neighbouring countries to precipitate crisis
with the aim of scuttling the 2019 general election, having realized
that they cannot win in a free, fair and credible election.
“We know that APC’s jettisoning of our territorial integrity and
national security to hire crowds from Niger Republic is borne out of
frustration over the recent successes and massive turn out of supporters
at PDP rallies held in the North West.
“Now we understand the weight of the submission by the National
Security Adviser (NSA) Maj. Gen. Babagana Mongunu (rtd) when he stated
recently that; “unscrupulous elements are already mobilising merchants
of violence, including armed bandits and terrorists to orchestrate
violence during the elections in several states of the federation.
“Similarly, Nigerians can also decode the Minister of Information and
Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, when he stated recently that; “there is
also an international dimension to the evil plan. Some armed mercenaries
from the Niger Republic have been contracted to attack top government
functionaries, including state governors, across the North-west between
now and the elections.”
“Today, Nigerians need no further evidence of those planning evil against our nation.
“Already, there are apprehensions that miscreants who came from Niger
Republic to President Buhari’s rally are being offered accommodation in
our country by the APC to unleash violence immediately it is clear that
President Buhari is losing in the February 16 presidential election.
“On account of these, PDP demands an urgent and thorough
investigation into the circumstances leading to the presence of
politicians and thugs from Niger Republic at the APC presidential rally
in Kano on Thursday.
“The APC and the Buhari Presidency must immediately explain the roles
being played by Issa Moussa, Governor of Zinder and his counterpart
from Maradi, Zakiri Umar both of the Niger Republic, who were sighted
decked in the attires and official logos of the APC, in our political
affairs.
“Our security agencies must immediately investigate and lay in the
public domain the circumstances leading to their presence, which more or
less confirms that the APC has lost all domestic credibility and has
assumed a desperate mode.
“The presence of the Niger Republic Governors at President Buhari’s
rally signposts a direct assault on the credibility of the Presidential
elections.
“This is particularly against the backdrop of INEC’s plans to allow
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in that country to vote in our
election, a situation that opens the way for aliens to infiltrate as
IDPs and participate in our elections”.
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