The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All
Progressives Congress, APC, are being “tormented by the guilt” of violating the
nation’s electoral process and rigging the last presidential election.
PDP said this while deriding
President Buhari’s presidency and the APC for moving the presidential
inauguration ceremonies from May 29 to June 12.
In a statement signed and issued
on Tuesday night by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP stressed that
moving the presidential inauguration ceremonies from “May 29 to June 12 won’t
confer any form of legitimacy to the outcome of the rigged 2019 presidential
election”.
The main opposition party also
asserted that inviting world leaders to the inauguration ceremony cannot confer
international recognition to a purported stolen mandate.
According to Ologbondiyan: “It is
clear that the Buhari Presidency and the APC, being tormented by the guilt of
violating our electoral processes, can no longer boldly approach the oath book
on May 29, due to the burden of illegitimacy and now seeks refuge in the
sanctity of June 12, our Democracy Day.
“The Buhari Presidency and the
APC from our recent history have demonstrated that they totally averse to
democracy. They should, therefore, steer clear of our Democracy Day, having
violated all our democratic ethos in manipulating the Presidential elections
and upturning the mandate of the people; the same injustice which Chief MKO
Abiola, the symbol of June 12, fought and died for.
“Chief Abiola stood and died for
democracy. Any attempt therefore to schedule any event related to the outcome
of the rigged 2019 Presidential election on June 12 would be an open
desecration of the sanctity of the Democracy day and a direct assault to the
sensibilities of Nigerians.
“Moreover, the PDP rejects this
absurd desperation by the Buhari Presidency and the APC to overshadow the
import of our Democracy Day and stifle the quest by Nigerians to vent their
anger against the democratic violations of the APC administration in the last
four years.”
PDP also called on the “Buhari
Presidency to note that trying to seize our Democracy Day cannot confer
legitimacy to a rigged election, neither can it erase the litany of violations
including human rights abuses, assault on democratic institutions, particularly
the Legislature and the Judiciary; clamp down on opposition figures, clipping
of the media,
extra-judicial killings,
arbitrary arrests and illegal detention of citizens, and the rigging of the
2019 Presidential election.”
“We want the Buhari Presidency
and the APC to understand that what is paramount to majority of Nigerians now
is the retrieval of the stolen mandate, which they freely gave to Atiku
Abubakar, at the tribunal so that our nation can enjoy the values of freedom,
justice, fairness and equity embedded in our constitutional democracy.”
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