Buhari alleged disqualification, Lai Mohammed lied again-----PDP
(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential
Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO, has described the speculation that the
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu
Buhari (rtd), has been disqualified from the March 28 election, by Alhaji Lai Mohammed as yet another lie.
Director of Media and Publicity of PDPPCO, Chief Femi
Fani-Kayode in a statement in Tuesday, said “Lai Mohammed has told yet another dirty lie.
What on earth is our business with Buhari's court case?
“We know that he does not have a certificate and that he was
not eligible to contest but we have moved on from there and we are ready to
meet him in the field. The truth is that the APC are suffering from all manner
of paranoia and they have lost touch with reality.
“They are the proverbial conspiracy theorists who are so
consumed by their own morbid fears that they sleep in their wardrobes and under
their beds every night. Each time someone knocks at the gates of their homes
they wave their hands in the air, they shiver and scream and they say ‘the
President has sent the security people to come and arrest us’.
“Frankly they deserve to be pitied. They see government
conspiracies everywhere and they have become prisoners of their own wild
hallucinations. The truth is that we are not in the least bit interested in
General Buhari's travails at the court and we are not in a position to
influence the decision of the judge or the outcome of the case one way or the
other.
“The problem with the APC is that they cannot appreciate the
difference between the judiciary and the executive. They are so primitive that
they cannot comprehend the concept of '’separation of powers’. Simply because
General Buhari himself controlled the courts and threatened judges when he was
in power he thinks that the same thing is happening 31 years later under the
administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. He does not appreciate the fact
that times have changed and that our courts and judges are fiercely independent
and deeply courageous.
“We wish General Buhari well in his case tomorrow but
frankly speaking it is the last thing on our minds and we are not losing any
sleep over it. Our prayer is that, whichever way, the rule of law is upheld and
that justice is done.
“We also hope that he is not disqualified so that we have
the opportunity to deal with him once and for all and demystify him at the
polls. It would be a cruel act to
deprive us of the opportunity of bursting his bubble once and for all and to
humiliate him at the polls.
“We must remember that it was the Director General of the
Buhari Presidential Campaign Organisation, Governor Rotimi Amaechi, that has
interfered with the work of the judiciary in his state and that has attempted
to intimidate the judges by shutting down the state High Courts for the last
one year.
“It is interesting to note that when the same APC that is
now calling into question the integrity of the judiciary got an injunction from
the Lagos State High court to stop the broadcast of the infamous ‘Lion of Bourdillon’ documentary they did not
complain about government interference in the judiciary at the time. Neither
did they complain when they got another order from the Lagos State High Court
to stop the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, President Goodluck
Jonathan, from deploying troops to help secure lives during the election.
“When things go their way the courts are good, but when they
suspect that they may not they then make baseless and childish allegations that
have no basis in logic or reality. Our advice to them is to grow up, get real
and prepare for the greatest humiliation of their lives on March 28.”
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