By Charles Kumolu
LAGOS — THE Buhari Campaign Organisation has called on Nigerians
to disregard what its described as ongoing misinformation about the personality
and record of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd), by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, noting that the
PDP is bent on arousing hatred against Buhari.
It also regretted that rather than
focusing on issues of national significance, the PDP spokesmen have stuck to
the tactics of demonising Buhari.
A statement by Mr. Dele Alake,
Director, Strategic Communications of the organisation, called on the PDP to
avoid dishonouring the Abuja non-violence accord through inflammatory
statements.
The statement reads: “It is shocking
that rather than explain itself over the multiple crises it has engendered or
has failed to respond to or offer panaceas to these challenging troubles,
desperate Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidates and spokesmen have stuck to
the tactics of demonising the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate in the
presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari, using all sorts of red herrings,
abuses, foul temper to whip up hatred against the person of the APC candidate.
“We hereby alert the general public
that, that desperation will intensify as the PDP senses the increasing
possibility of losing the elections by a wide margin and once again, urge the
PDP to honour the violence-free pact it recently signed by halting the violence
in its statements.
PTF
“One of the red herrings being
projected by the PDP and its many hatchet writers in the media is the
allegation of corruption and favouritism in the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund
(PTF) run by Gen Buhari under the Sani Abacha regime and a little after.
“The critics suggest the existence
of dossiers and investigative reports supposedly indicting the APC candidate of
unwholesome activities when he presided over the affairs of the agency. But a
few days ago, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was supposed to have
commissioned the investigation, disclosed that he was in possession of the
report and nothing untoward was established against the APC candidate.
“To the astonishment of all
right-thinking persons, the PDP has chosen not to believe in the authority of
Obasanjo who ordered the investigation and has final say on it but prefers to
allege that the man who has the fact is dead. Can there be a worse tragicomedy
than this? Who really is fooling who?
“The fact is that President
Jonathan’s mismanagement of inter-ethnic relations, a critical issue in a
federal system like ours, is the source of the tension that pervades the
nation. We wish to draw the attention of Nigerians to the list of President
Jonathan’s 109-member Presidential Campaign Council published yesterday and ask
if any Yoruba person of substance is on the list. It says a lot about the
anti-Yoruba sentiments of President Jonathan.
“The fact is that the PDP has
consistently avoided the main issues of this campaign. Apparently, it has no
answers to them. The party prefers to focus on personal attacks, dreg up
unsubstantiated records of the general during his military rule, make wild
imputations of his motives, and label him atrociously in order to hang him.”
Source: Vanguard
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