{"id":29496,"date":"2014-07-26T18:11:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=29496"},"modified":"2014-07-26T18:11:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T17:11:05","slug":"kaduna-blast-reason-hurt-buhari-threat-says-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/kaduna-blast-reason-hurt-buhari-threat-says-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna blast: We have no reason to hurt Buhari,&#8230;He is no threat says PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"messagecontent\">\n<div class=\"leftcol\">\n<div id=\"messagebody\">\n<div class=\"message-htmlpart\">\n<div class=\"rcmBody\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #171717; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it is laughable to suggest the party plotted the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #171717; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">assassination<\/span><span style=\"color: #171717; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0attempt on General Muhamadu Buhari, as a Presidential election against \u00a0\u00a0Buhari, would be a no contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">According to the party, \u00a0Buhari posed no threat to whoever emerges its\u00a0candidate for\u00a0the 2015 presidential election because he \u00a0had lost three\u00a0presidential elections and would lose a fourth time if he gets the APC ticket.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0In a statement signed by PDP spokesman on Saturday, it\u00a0described as \u201claughable and lame\u201d, attempts by APC to use the unfortunate Kaduna bomb attacks that affected Buhari\u2019s\u00a0convoy to absolve itself of blame for encouraging insurgency in the country.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0It also described the\u00a0earlier statements by APC and its governors as failed attempts at image laundering, arguing \u00a0that APC\u2019s true identity as a party supportive of violence and disunity in the country is already well-known to all.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u201cNigerians will recall that when the news of the attack broke out, the PDP took the high moral ground of condemning the development and sympathised with General Muhammadu Buhari while at the same time calling for a thorough investigation to fish out the perpetrators of the dastardly act,\u201d the statement read.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u201cWe are therefore shocked, disappointed and disgusted that the APC leaders chose to use the ugly development to embark on image laundering. However, their hasty attempts to indict the Presidency and our great party while exonerating themselves from the widely-held notion that they have been promoting insurgency have raised issues regarding what really happened, especially now that a suspect has been arrested.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u201cNigerians now ponder; they ask: Was the attack a setup aimed at scoring some political points? If indeed it was an assassination attempt, was it engineered by internal frictions and crisis of ambition within the APC? Has it to do with some other presidential aspirants in the APC seeing\u00a0General Buhari as a threat and obstacle to their ambitions? Or could it be APC\u2019s desperate strategy of trying to disentangle itself from the internationally-acknowledged link with terrorists and possibly undermine the planned probe of their involvement by the United Kingdom?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0\u201cThese questions have become completely pertinent considering the fact that General Buhari poses no threat whatsoever to any candidate that the PDP might project.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">According to the PDP &#8221; the \u00a0APC could not in any way exonerate itself from the insurgency ravaging the country, which it has been promoting through the utterances and actions of its leaders, thinking that the insurgents were after the president and the PDP.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #171717;\">\u00a0It said &#8221; if APC leaders had joined other well-meaning Nigerians in condemning acts\u00a0of terrorism at the early stage, those behind them would not have been bold enough to get to the current alarming level. 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