PDP leaders inciting post-election widespread violence, as Femi Fani-Kayode asks Atiku to former parallel government

*This ‘monster’ must be arrested immediately, Nigerians react

He also advised Atiku to mobilise the citizens to “order civil disobedience throughout the nation.”

Despite the peace accord jointly signed by both Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidates to accept the outcome of the 2019 presidential elections and whoever emerges, leaders of the opposition PDP have under the last 24 hours resorted to making inciting statements capable of causing breakdown of law and order in the land, The DEFENDER can authoritatively report.

This is as a chieftain of the opposition PDP, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, on Tuesday urged the party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar to form a parallel government in the country if not declared winner of the presidential election.

“He must reject the results and give the FG an ultimatum to declare the authentic results, failure of which he will form a Govt,” Fani-Kayode said in a tweet.

After the announcement of results from 16 states of the federation including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), it was evident that incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari was in the lead with over a million votes between him and Atiku.

Fani-Kayode, a former aviation minister, said the presidential election held in Nigeria on Saturday, February 23 was a ‘charade’ and should be disregarded.

Although INEC was yet to declare anyone as the winner of the presidential election, the former minister called on Atiku, who served as Nigeria’s vice president from 1999 till 2007, to rebel against anyone elected president if he does not win.

“The election was a charade,” Fani-Kayode declared.

Fani-Kayode argued that the presidential election results that have been announced were not a reflection of the votes cast by the electorates.

According to him, “If this charade is allowed to stand, the country is finished! Then the authentic results collated by PDP from the 119,000 PUs must be released to the public and the international community.”

“Atiku should now brace up to defend the choice of millions of Nigerians who risked their lives on Saturday, defied tyranny and oppression and spoke through the ballot,” Fani-Kayode said.

He also advised Atiku to mobilise the citizens to “order civil disobedience throughout the nation.”

Fani-Kayode is known to be antagonistic of the Buhari-led government and has been accused of taunting the government with different comments.

A day earlier, the national chairman of the PDP Uche Secondus said the results being announced by INEC were “incorrect and unacceptable” to the party.

“All results currently being announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is incorrect thus unacceptable to our party and people,” Secondus said on Monday.

The PDP on Sunday, barely 24 hours after voting closed across the country, asked INEC to announce its candidate Atiku Abubakar as the winner of the election in spite of the result not being centrally collated.

PDP’s spokesman Kola Ologbondiyan said the delay in the central collation of the presidential election results was a deliberate attempt by the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Nigerian government to swing the election in its favour.

“In delaying the announcement of the results, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu is allowing the APC to turn him into a villain and directly pitching him against the people,” Ologbodiyan said in a statement on Sunday.

“He should therefore extricate himself from the rejected APC and be on the side of the people, by immediately announcing the results as already delivered at the polling units and declare, the people’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the winner.”

In the meantime, Nigerians who react to this statement, which is one of several of such inciting utterance in 24 hours since PDP politicians knew they were losing out of the presidential contest, have called on the Federal Government to order the immediate arrest of Femi Fani-Kayode, who is ironically a former Minister of Aviation in the same country he is said to be destroyed.

Other leaders of the opposition who, despite the peace accord they all signed with the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari to accept whatever the outcome of the election would be and whoever emerges still resort to inciting widespread of violence in the post-polls, are also asked to be arrested to prevent the country from going into flame.