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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation (PPPPCO) has urged the National Peace Committee (NPC) to call President Muhammadu Buhari to order.
It called also on the United Nations (UN) and other world leaders to call the President to order and save the nation from what it called “imminent collapse”.
At a media briefing in Abuja yesterday, the organisation’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said it had become necessary for the NPC, the UN and world leaders to ensure that the country has peaceful, free, fair and credible general elections in February.
According to the PDP, the President’s alleged desperation for self-succession has become a major threat to the country’s unity, stability and peaceful electoral process.
The party accused Buhari of seeking ways to enmesh the electoral process in a crisis as, according to it, Atiku was enjoying Nigerians support to win the February 16 presidential election.
He said: “The Buhari presidency has been overheating the polity with its unending manipulations of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), muzzling of free speech and escalated clampdown on opposition and civil society organisations and we insist that such must stop, if we must have a peaceful election.”
It expressed the fear that Mrs. Zakari as chairperson of the Presidential Election Collation Centre Committee will not guarantee credible elections.
The party said: “The PPCO insists that there is no way peace can be guaranteed without a free and fair election. Already, Nigerians across the board are livid with anger over the foisting of Mrs. Amina Zakari, President Buhari’s relation, to head the collation of presidential election results.
“We want the National Peace Committee and the entire world to know that as long as Amina Zakari is in INEC, a peaceful election is not guaranteed because she has the mandate to abuse the process and this will not be accepted by Nigerians.
“The PPCO therefore calls on the National Peace Committee to immediately speak out on the impropriety of having Amina Zakari in INEC as well as insist on her removal so that we can have a credible and peaceful presidential election.”
“The PPCO alerts the entire world and particularly the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to the ongoing use of the police to clamp down on opposition figures, particularly members of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council and outspoken CSOs on trumped-up criminal charges.”
The party cited the ordeal of Senator Dino Melaye with the police.
It said: “Part of the plot is to charge such individuals before certain compromised judicial officers, in various states, who have been briefed to detain, silence and put such opposition figures and CSO members out of circulation until after elections are concluded.”
