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Buhari ‘ruthlessly’ calling for jungle justice -PDP

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has tackled President Muhammadu Buhari over his threat to deal ruthlessly with those who might be involved in any form of violence during the rescheduled general election.

Buhari gave the warning against causing any crisis during the election at the meeting of the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, held in Abuja on Monday .

The meeting was to address matters that might have arisen from the postponement of the general election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

But in the reaction issued by the National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP, said the president’s order to security agencies to deal ruthlessly with anyone disturbing the peace during election was a call for jungle justice.

His words:  “President Muhammadu Buhari’s threat to the lives of Nigerians at the opening of APC’s national caucus meeting in Abuja today is a direct call for jungle justice and attempt to divert public attention from their closed session where details of their dastardly plot to truncate our democratic process will be perfected.

“We do hope that this call by President Buhari is not a camouflage for the fake soldiers mobilised by the APC to shoot at innocent Nigerians, snatch ballot boxes and execute their rigging plans on the election day. It is indeed a license to kill, which should not come from any leader of any civilized nation.

“President Buhari must however bear in mind that his resort to threats and scaremongering will not deter Nigerians from coming out en masse to vote him out of office on February 23.”

He also claimed that the intelligence report available to the PDP showed that the Buhari Presidency had directed the leadership of INEC to immediately reshuffle the Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, in order to deploy compromised officials to manipulate the electoral process in President Buhari’s favour.

Ologbondiyan said PDP was aware of the alleged pressure being mounted by the Buhari Presidency on INEC to cancel elections in some states and make others inconclusive so as to achieve President Buhari’s objectives of a staggered election not minding the crisis such would trigger across the federation.

“We want Nigerians and the international community to hold President Buhari personally responsible for any electoral crisis, otherwise he will as usual, claim that he was not aware of the plots and transfer the blame to Adams Oshiomhole and Rotimi Amaechi,” he said.

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