Press Statement
…FG’s Security Allegations Against PDP, Atiku Are Diversionary Stunts
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the Facebook revelation
detailing the devious manipulations and engineering of disinformation in
the 2019 general election by President Buhari’s handlers and All
Progressives Congress (APC) further exposes them as schemers and real
enemies of our democracy and national cohesion.
The party says that the revelation exposes the APC as a fraudulent and
violent-loving party, whose divisive activities are now directly
threatening the security stability of our nation.
Indeed, the Buhari Presidency and the APC should hide their faces in
shame as Nigerians have seen that their professed sanctimony and
‘holier-than-thou’ claims are mere masquerading.
Our party notes that there are more damning revelations against the
APC, not only on its rigging of the general election, but also on how it
is working against our nation, which will come to light at the
appropriate time.
The APC, which engaged in manipulation to foist itself, will do
anything, no matter how vile, to sustain itself in office, not minding
the social, economic and collateral damages such could cause our dear
nation.
It is however, to say the least, despicable that in their desperation to
hold on to power at all costs, President Buhari’s handlers and the APC
engaged in this sneaky disinformation, internet lies and smear campaigns
against PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
It is also unpardonable that instead of owning up, the Federal
Government and the APC, through the Minister of Information and Culture,
Lai Mohammed, are seeking to cover their tracks and divert public
attention from their devious acts by making unsubstantiated security
allegations against our party and Atiku Abubakar.
The Facebook revelation exposes how President Buhari, in his claimed
integrity, allowed the enlisting of criminals, hackers and internet
fraudsters in the desperate attempt to manipulate the views of Nigerians
against Atiku Abubakar; a scheme which failed as Nigerians had already
made up their minds to do away with the incompetent, deceptive,
vindictive and corrupt APC administration.
Our party has information of how the APC had to resort to crude
manipulation of the electoral process to muscle votes and alter election
results after it failed in the smear campaign project.
The APC has now commenced a renewed plot to engage in fabricated
security accusations against the PDP and our Presidential candidate in
another desperate stunt to play the victim and divert attention from its
endless election manipulations, all in the ill-fated attempt to demonize
the PDP, hoodwink Nigerians and confer legitimacy on the outcome of the
rigged election.
Since the Facebook revelation, the Federal Government and the Presidency
have suddenly gone dumb, having been exposed and shown in their true
colours. However, the PDP holds to the eternal truth that no matter how
lies appears to prevail, truth is bound to triumph at the end of the
day.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
