By Iyobosa Uwugiaren in Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
said last night that the concerns raised by former President Olusegun
Obasanjo, detailing President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged scheme to use
apparatus of state power to subjugate Nigerians, undermine democratic
system, subvert the electoral process and perpetuate himself in office,
have further vindicated its stand that the President is out for a
self-succession plot.
According
to PDP, “Obasanjo’s submission has also reinforced our position that
President Buhari, and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC),
having realised that there is no way he can win in a free and fair
election, is now besieging all democratic institutions, including the
Judiciary, the Legislature, the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC), while engaging in acts that threaten the unity, peace
and corporate existence of our dear nation.
“The whole world can see how President
Buhari and APC’s desperation for power is putting the lives of over 200
million Nigerian citizens at great risk as their actions stoke violence
and push our dear nation to the precipice.
“We are however not surprised that the
APC, a party that has shown that it is completely anti-people, quickly
rose in defence of the Buhari Presidency’s assault on our democratic
order. The APC has always been a deceptive soulless mob that would
rather have our nation burn than to be out of power.”
The
opposition party in a statement signed by the spokesman of the PDP
Presidential Council, Kola Ologbondiyan, added that President Obasanjo’s
concern was a clarion call on all compatriots, irrespective of ethnic,
religious and political affiliations to rise in defence of democracy.
The PDP therefore called on all
Nigerians to be at alert at this critical time to stop President Buhari
and the APC on their anti-democratic trails with their votes.
The party added, “We should never
allow anybody to set our nation on fire just to achieve selfish
ambitions. We must eschew all our differences and unite in using our
votes to take back our country from this dwindling, incompetent,
ineffectual, corrupt and anti-people administration.
If we don’t take action with our
votes, we would be giving up our nation to totalitarian forces at our
own peril and those of generations yet unborn.”