2019: PDP, again, reports Buhari to UN, claims there is tension in Nigeria; “Your wish for tension in Nigeria will always fail”, Concerned Citizens tell defeated PDP, Atiku

“By now you Nigerian media (facing our reporter), if you have not compromised the country’s integrity, should have been publishing interviews, news, features and doing all the things that media are known for educating and exposing the truth to let the world know how criminalised the PDP leaders and their presidential candidate, Atiku, have been, having breached the provisions of the Peace Accord political they signed with other parties as administered by the National Peace Committee,” Ogunyemi, an economist and successful businessman said.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reported President Muhammadu Buhari to the United Nations (UN) over alleged plots by the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to scuttle the conduct of the 2019 general elections, particularly, the presidential poll.

The PDP said there is heightened tension across the country over the manipulations by the Buhari Presidency, adding that if the UN and the international community fail to intervene and support a credible, free and fair election, our nation may witness an electoral stillbirth, capable of triggering violence and humanitarian crisis in Nigeria and the entire sub-Sahara region.

But Concerned Citizens Group in the country, which played a very supportive role in ensuring that opposition desperate move in the pre and during election period did not work out well, has hit back at the PDP telling the opposition political group that its plot and wish of its presidential candidate at the election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to have a Nigeria up in flame would fail.

The National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, who led the members of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) Monday to receive the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for West Africa and the Sahel, Mr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, in the PDP national secretariat in Abuja, informed the UN Security Council that President Buhari is already compromising the military and other security forces as tools to muscle the electoral process.

Secondus said: “President Buhari is not preparing for elections. He is not prepared for the rigours of any electoral exercise. Every well-intentioned politician goes out to the street to engage and persuade the people with his or her manifesto and policies, but President Buhari is not ready to engage anybody in contest of ideas; that is why he is desperate to compromise our military as a measure of limitless powers to rig.

“The world saw how our Service Chiefs participated in President Buhari’s campaign rally. There is no way these Service Chiefs will not be pushed to resort to self-help on behalf of President Buhari and his APC in the election. The UN Security Council should note this and intervene to save our democratic process.

According to Secondus, “President Buhari has compromised our Police. As we speak, the Inspector-General of Police has sealed the Akwa-Ibom State House of Assembly and seized an arm of government, just like they did in Benue State in July. Our country has been turned into a police state and there is fear everywhere.”

The PDP chairman further said that “Similarly, our Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been annexed by the Buhari Presidency. This is the reason it has not been able to conduct any credible election in the last three and half years. Nigerians have lost confidence that INEC as presently constituted can guarantee credible polls in 2019. We, therefore, demand for the resignation of the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and Mrs. Amina Zakari, who is a niece of Mr. President.

“Our international partners must therefore insist and encourage a free, fair and credible electoral process. They must also caution against manipulation and other abuses that are capable of truncating our democracy and endangering the lives of Nigerians as a result of a failed electoral process,” Secondus further said.

Earlier, Mr. Chambas had urged political stakeholders in the country to follow the rules to ensure a smooth electoral process in the 2019 elections.

The Concerned Citizens Group’s Chairman, Mr. Wale Ogunyemi, who spoke to The DEFENDER in Lagos on Monday made it clear to the United Nations that there was no point in allowing itself to be taken for granted by some opposition politicians in Nigeria, whose major pain was just that they were defeated in an election they signed a peace accord to accept what the outcome.

“By now you Nigerian media (facing our reporter), if you have not compromised the country’s integrity, should have been publishing interviews, news, features and doing all the things that media are known for educating and exposing the truth to let the world know how criminalised the PDP leaders and their presidential candidate, Atiku, have been, having breached the provisions of the Peace Accord political they signed with other parties as administered by the National Peace Committee,” Ogunyemi, an economist and successful businessman said.