The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to hold
President Muhammadu Buhari culpable for “violating” provisions of the electoral
act.
The PDP said this on Thursday
while reacting to the presidential nomination form bought for Buhari by a group
known as the National Coordinator of Nigeria Consolidation Ambassador Network
(NCAN).
On Wednesday, the group presented
a cheque of N45 million to Adams Oshiomhole, chairman of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), for the purchase of the nomination form of Buhari.
Sanusi Musa, coordinator of the
group, said the decision to buy the form was informed by the need to
consolidate on the foundation for a better Nigeria.
The gesture is said to contradict
section 91 (9) of the electoral act which states: “No individual or other entity
shall donate more than one million naira to any candidate.”
In a statement, Kola
Ologbondiyan, PDP spokesman, said Buhari’s failure to turn down the group’s
request indicts him.
The party added that Nigerians
are aware of the president’s “gimmick” in purchasing the form, despite the
“affluence” his family lives in.
“Nigerians are aware that the
very expensive personal effects, including posh jewelries daily paraded by his
close relatives betrayed the gimmick of using an unregistered group, pieced
together to execute another failed pro-poor stunt to sway Nigerians,” the
statement read.
“Already, our people are daily
confronted by the flaunting of affluence and material wealth by the President
and those around him, while betraying and abandoning millions of poor Nigerians
who, unfortunately, put their trust in him in 2015.
“Since President Buhari has not
publicly disowned the purchase of the form by the group, the PDP charges INEC to,
within the next 24 hours, hold him culpable and make him to face the
appropriate sanctions for the violation of electoral laws.”
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