{"id":104503,"date":"2023-04-29T03:24:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T02:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=104503"},"modified":"2023-04-29T03:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T02:24:49","slug":"impose-visa-ban-on-buhari-after-may-29-pdp-urges-international-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/impose-visa-ban-on-buhari-after-may-29-pdp-urges-international-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Impose visa ban on Buhari after May 29, PDP urges international community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1764455098009529427\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the international community to impose visa ban and other travel restrictions on President Muhammadu Buhari over his comments on the 2023 elections, saying he was gloating over Nigeria\u2019s worst election in recent memory.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nAlso, PDP accused the President of attempting to bully the judiciary, which is currently handling electoral petitions, into giving legitimacy to a clearly flawed election, asking that the sanctions be extended to all those involved in manipulating the outcome of the 2023 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Debo Ologunagba, made the call said at a briefing in Abuja, on Friday.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nPDP is responding to claims by President Buhari that the opposition lost the 2023 elections to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, because of overconfidence and lack of strategy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe President said it in the State House when he received the Progressive Governors Forum led by its Chairman, Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari had said: \u201cThey were already telling their foreign backers that they would defeat the APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur party blended confidence with caution, we worked hard and won.\u00a0Now, their overconfidence is creating more problems for the opposition than anyone else.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nReacting today in Abuja, PDP said it did not lose the presidential election as claimed by Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ologunagba, \u201cWe are not willing to surrender the mandate freely given to our party by the people irrespective of the threats, bullying and manipulation by the APC-led administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving clearly undermined democracy in Nigeria, the PDP calls on the International Community to accordingly impose sanctions, including visa ban and travel restrictions, on President Buhari and his family immediately he vacates office on May 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis demand for sanction is in line with President Buhari\u2019s request on February 17, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium, wherein he called on the European Union (EU) to impose \u2018weighty sanctions\u2019 on those engaged in \u2018unconstitutional change of governments\u2019 as well as those influencing the \u2018process and outcomes of elections\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP also demands an open investigation into the roles played by President Buhari in the undermining of democracy in Nigeria in the 2019 and 2023 Presidential elections.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the international community to impose visa ban and other travel restrictions on President Muhammadu Buhari over his comments on the 2023 elections,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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