The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has said that it was only yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari remembered that he was the Commander in Chief of the armed forces.
Secondus also said that the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was only trying hard to extricate itself from the mess that led to the postponement of the presidential and National Assembly elections.
The Rivers-born politician said that the more APC try extricate itself, the more it becomes clearer that they were indeed a critical accomplice in the untidy outing of the electoral commission.
Secondus spoke at the 84th emergency meeting of the PDP National Executive Council (NEC) on Tuesday in Abuja
His words, “Beloved party leaders you may have been following the ranting of APC leaders since last Saturday, where they have been trying hard to extricate themselves from the mess that led to the postponement of the elections, but the more they try the more it became clearer that they were indeed a critical accomplice in the untidy outing of the electoral commission.
“While the APC Director of Planning and Election monitoring, who is the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Barr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, and the National Chairman of APC, Adams Oshiohmole struggled to turn the mess of last Saturday away from their party through their various utterances, they end up exposing their involvement in a marriage that has gone sour. They still believe that they can deceive Nigerians into not recognizing crocodile tears from the real ones.
“You may have been shocked like many other Nigerians to find President Muhammadu Buhari who has been virtually off duty since the needless bloodletting in various states of the country particularly in Benue, Plateau, and Zamfara yesterday at APC’s caucus meeting in Abuja remembering that he is the Commander in Chief as he charged Nigeria military and Police to kill voters.
“By that directive, ordering soldiers to kill our citizens with recourse to the law and with impunity, the President has unwittingly given license to APC leaders to carry military personnel on Saturday.
“The agenda of that directive is clear, to scare away voters and agents, that we have directed to defend their votes, so as to give way to a military protected political thugs, to come into the polling booths, and implement their result replacement strategy.
“Last Thursday, 48 hours to the rescheduled election, it is reported that the Director General of the Buhari Campaign Organization and the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, entered Okirika in Okirika local Government Area of Rivers state with soldiers, and Nigerians and democracy watchers are wondering if this a new military strategy to rig .
“Bearing in mind that election are civil matters, and that law enforcement agencies usually electoral related issues, one wonders why our President called for the military to get involved in our electoral process.
“Additionally, the Presidents body language alongside that of his party hierarchy, at their caucus meeting, appeared remorseless for the damage done to our democracy or the huge private and public resources wasted by the inability of APC hawks acting as contractors and consultants to allow the commission to operate.
“I can indeed make the conclusion, that from inception, President Buhari, was not ready for free and fair elections, otherwise he would easily have signed the amended Electoral Act, which would have enabled peaceful and hitch free elections in 2019.
“President Buhari’s disregard of institutions of states, which started with the attempt of the Executive to hijack the Legislature, has continued unabated, with the illegal suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen, and the swearing in of an acting CJN.”
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