The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the Facebook
revelation detailing the devious manipulations and engineering of information
in the 2019 general election by President Muhammadu Buhari’s handlers and the
All Progressives Congress (APC) further exposes them as schemers and real
enemies of Nigeria's democracy and national cohesion.
It said 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.
The party in a statement on Sunday by its National Publicity
Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said that the ruling party, which engaged in
manipulation to foist itself, would 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.
The main opposition party insisted that the revelation
exposed the APC as a fraudulent and violent-loving party, whose divisive
activities are now directly threatening the security stability of our nation.
The party's spokesperson said that since the Facebook
revelation, the federal government and the Presidency have suddenly gone dumb,
having been exposed and shown in their true colours.
Ologbondiyan stated: 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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
The PDP stressed 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 the
country which would come to light at the appropriate time.
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