All Progressives’ Congress (APC) has alleged a plot by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to use the courts to find its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) guilty of perjury.<\/p>\n
Some persons have filed suits challenging the eligibility of General Buhari standing for election having allegedly lied under oath that he earned a school certificate in 1961.<\/p>\n
In a statement “APC Campaign alerts on Presidency\u2019s, PDP’s grand plan to scuttle 2015 elections,” the party alleged that PDP ” plans to procure judgment, precipitate crisis, impose state of emergency.”<\/p>\n
APC, in the statement, said it had it “on good authority that the kernel of the plan is to use the subterfuge of the frivolous litigation by some people to get a court pronouncement (from one of the Presidency\u2019s pliable Judges) to the effect that General Muhammadu Buhari \u2013 the APC presidential candidate \u2013 lied under oath in saying that the military had his certificate, whereas, the military had denied being in possession of the certificate.”<\/p>\n
The party further alleged that Buhari’s defence in court may not matter, as the plot to stop him has been allegedly sealed.<\/p>\n
It added that should Buhari’s disqualification trigger any violence, the PDP-led federal government would anchor on that to slam a six-month long state of emergency.<\/p>\n
The statement reads,<\/p>\n
“The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has alerted of a dastardly plot by the PDP and the President Jonathan-led government to scuttle the 2015 general elections.<\/p>\n
A statement by APCPCO on Thursday disclosed that the campaign has it on good authority that the kernel of the plan is to use the subterfuge of the frivolous litigation by some people to get a court pronouncement (from one of the Presidency\u2019s pliable Judges) to the effect that General Muhammadu Buhari \u2013 the APC presidential candidate \u2013 lied under oath in saying that the military had his certificate, whereas, the military had denied being in possession of the certificate.<\/p>\n
According to a statement signed by Director of Media and Publicity of the campaign, Mallam Garba Shehu, the counter arguments by the APC\u2019s candidate\u2019s counsel would not matter because the particular Federal High Judge has been prepared to do a dirty hatchet job.
\nThe APC revealed it is their calculation that this wicked pronouncement of disqualification of the APC candidate shall precipitate spontaneous violent protests across the country.<\/p>\n
Shehu said this scenario shall then make President Goodluck Jonathan, the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 2015 general election, to declare a six-month state of emergency across the land.<\/p>\n
He disclosed that the three-week long strike action by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) was embarked upon on the prodding of the PDP-led Federal government as a way to stymie any higher Court upturning of the lower Court pronouncement which ruled on President Jonathan\u2019s eligibility to contest the February 14 election.<\/p>\n
Similarly, the APC Campaign said the same trade Union has been procured to open the Court to allow for this Court Pronouncement in disqualifying General Buhari from contesting the election.
\n“We are aware of the intense desperation of the PDP-led Federal government of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in desiring to retain political power at all costs despite his and his party’s overwhelming rejection by the Nigerian people, ahead of the 2015 general election.
\n“We have brought this wicked plot of the PDP-led government to the attention of Nigerians, from whom any government derives its legitimacy. Nigeria cannot be thrown into chaos because of the selfish and callous desire of a tiny cabal to goad the Nigerian people into its destructive path. The governance of the Nigerian people by any person or group of persons must have the assent of the Nigerian people,” Shehu said.<\/p>\n
The APC Campaign called on the International community to prevail on this obviously agitated presidency not to plunge the Nigerian State into avoidable intractable crisis.
\nSigned:
\nMallam Garba Shehu<\/p>\n
Directorate of Media and Publicity<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Sent from my BlackBerry\u00ae wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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