The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has told President Muhammadu Buhari to stop boasting about the “stolen” 2019 presidential mandate, insisting that its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, would soon recover his mandate at the tribunal.
The party said Buhari’s grandstanding over the rigged presidential election and attempt to impose himself on Nigerians, said a lot about his touted integrity.
The PDP described the President’s recent attack on the PDP’s 16 years administrations as an attempt to shift public attention from the overwhelming evidence that he rigged the elections, noting that Nigerians will not be distracted.
A statement by the spokesman for the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday, read in part: “It indeed speaks volumes that President Buhari, in his claimed integrity and anti-corruption stance, is grandstanding over the violent rigging of the elections and his attempt to foist himself into a second term in office on the pedestal of stolen votes.
“President Buhari and his All Progressives Congress, APC, should know that the PDP and Nigerians are focused and will not be distracted by any sort of blackmail in the pursuit of the mandate and we are confident that our justices will never allow an illegitimate government to sit over the affairs of our dear nation.
“Moreover, if anybody has a question to answer on the administration of the nation’s resources, it is President Buhari, who has not been able to offer any explanation on the looting of over N14 trillion from revenue generating agencies in a space of three years under his direct supervision.
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“We ask: was it the PDP that siphoned over N9 trillion, through underhand contracts, as detailed in the leaked NNPC memo, in the same sector President Buhari directly supervises as Minister of Petroleum Resources?
“Was it the PDP that stole the over N1.1 trillion worth of crude illegally lifted and diverted with 18 unregistered companies in 2017; the over N1.4 trillion in fraudulent oil subsidy regime and many more scams, including funds meant for the welfare of victims of insurgency in the North East under the Buhari administration?
“President Buhari must note that Nigerians are no longer interested in his incompetence and blame game and this is the very reason they voted massively against him on February 23.
“He should therefore end his diversionary tactics and get ready to meet the people’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in court.”
The PDP noted that it paid off the nation’s huge foreign and domestic debts and grew the economy to be one of the fastest growing in the world while Buhari on the other hand, ran the economy into recession within a space of three years with no identifiable development project that can be credited to his administration.
