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The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has denounced the crude, vitriolic and impudent verbal attack on a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, by the presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for no other reason than his timely warning against election rigging in 2015.
In a statement issued in Osogbo, Osun State, on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the statement for which Gen. Buhari is now being mercilessly savaged was nothing but a warning against those who may be planning to rig the 2015 general elections, hence should not have rankled anyone who believes in free, fair and transparent polls.
It said the viciousness of the seemingly coordinated attacks by the presidency and the PDP raise a lot of concern regarding their plans for the 2015 elections.
”We hold no brief for anyone. But it is true that if elections are rigged, as they have been so shamelessly and brazenly
done by the PDP since 1999, naturally, people will react, and in doing so it is
impossible for anyone to predict how far things can go.
done by the PDP since 1999, naturally, people will react, and in doing so it is
impossible for anyone to predict how far things can go.
“This is what, in our opinion, Gen. Buhari warned against. If the presidency and the PDP have no intention to rig in 2015, why are they so worried about the consequences of such action?” ACN queried.
The party said Buhari’s warning was in order, considering that the 2011 general elections remained the most systematically-rigged polls in Nigeria’s history, irrespective of the so-called endorsement by some
visceral foreign election monitors.
visceral foreign election monitors.
”The 2011 elections also left Nigeria divided along ethnic and religious lines, more than at any other time in the history of Nigeria, hence no one should tell us about the polls being the best since Nigeria returned to civil rule, just because some self-acclaimed monitors said so!” ACN said.