APC NEC: PDP Ridicules Presidency’s Denial, Asks Buhari To Caution Aides

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to call his media handlers to order so as to protect his integrity from further damage.

The PDP was reacting to the statement of denial issued by presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu, that last Thursday’s NEC meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was not convened physically at the Council Chambers of the presidential villa, saying it was a virtual one.

The Council Chambers is where the Federal Executive Council (FEC)  meetings usually take place.

The PDP in a statement issued on Sunday evening by its Spokesman, Kola Ologbodiyan, said it was unfortunate that the Presidency would post a denial even when the media and the public space were awashed with photographs and videos of the NEC meeting, with APC leaders physically in attendance inside the FEC chambers where Buhari presided.

Ologbodiyan said it was shocking that the Buhari Presidency could make an emphatic denial of the physical meeting.

The PDP Spokesman added that the denial exposed the “decadence” in the APC and the Buhari presidency.

He said “This is even when the world watched Mr. President addressing the applauding APC leaders, in addition to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF), Abubakar Malami, physically administering oath of office on the Chairman of APC National Caretaker Committee, Mai Buni, on the floor of the FEC chamber.

“It is a fact before Nigerians that the meeting was physical and only virtual to the extent that some members of the APC NEC members were linked via conference call.

“Moreover, our party refers the Buhari Presidency to reports already in the media where the AGF admitted administering oath of office to the Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee; an event that took place on the floor of the FEC Chamber.

“What Nigerians  expected of the Buhari Presidency and the APC, was to tender an unreserved apology to the nation and desist from further desecration of our national values and official conduct requirements.”