The battle is not only in the Tribunal as presidency accuses PDP of sabotage

President Buhari won reelection as declared by INEC  but risks losing to Atiku at the Tribunal.

The recently concluded presidential election may have come and gone, however, how it was both won and lost is a different story entirely. By the way, the opposition party and its candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar are still in court vigorously contesting the outcome of the last election which Buhari was declared winner by INEC.

But the whole thing has now taken a new dimension as both the ruling and opposition parties resort to throwing tantrums. The Buhari presidency which risks losing at the Election Tribunals to the PDP, now believes the opposition party is working hard to sabotage its government. This assertion was made by the presidency via the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Saturday, at the 2019 edition of his Annual Ramadan Lecture held at his home town Oro, Kwara.

He said, “As you are aware, a few days ago we raised the alarm that either by themselves or via their proxies, the PDP and it’s presidential candidate are doing everything possible to sabotage the Buhari Administration.

“Our interventions are based on credible evidence, and no government with the kind of evidence that we have, of plans to subvert the power of the state, attack the nation’s economic live wire and generally unleash mayhem on the polity, will keep quiet.

“The security agencies are all alert to their responsibilities and will not sit by and allow anyone to reverse the gains of our democracy under any guise.”

The minister noted that similar alarms had been raised by the police, the military and the DSS.

He said the government will neither be distracted nor dissuaded by pseudo and partisan analysts that had teamed up with the opposition to “either exhibit their ignorance or to engage in red herring and name calling”.

The minister called on Nigerians to use the occasion of the Ramadan to pray for the peace unity and stability in the country.

“I make this request against the background of those who are daily plotting to exploit our national fault lines of religion and ethnicity.

“Those who masquerade as democrats but can’t take electoral defeat, those who will not hesitate to collude with anti-democratic forces and deadenders to fan the embers of violence in the country.

“Those who have elevated their personal ambition over and above our survival as a nation,” he said.

(NAN)