The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday, challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to “make public the official correspondences of the 12 million members” of the groups that reportedly purchased his nomination form.
PDP in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, accused the “Presidency of round-tripping the N45 million claimed to have been contributed by a ‘shadowy’ group to buy the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential nomination form for President Muhammadu Buhari.”
PDP noted that Buhari’s inability, as “Mr. Integrity”, to explain the “registration status, membership and source of funding of the shadowy group exposes the charade in the latest failed endorsement stunt”.
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“The PDP notes as laughable, that the Buhari Presidency does not realize that such stunts have become out-worn and cannot sway opinion in a country with citizens as enlightened as Nigerians,” the statement read in parts.
“Most Nigerians already know how some officials at the Buhari presidency, made up of corrupt individuals, racketeers and certificate forgers, hurriedly assembled the group and mobilised them with N45 million for the APC presidential nomination form, which was hiked to scare away other contestants.
“How members of the group were settled for the stunt as well the issues and disagreements that arose from the deal are also known to many Nigerians.
“What Mr. President’s handlers are hiding from him is the fact that Nigerians do not believe the falsehood that a set of individuals, facing the challenges of abysmally low purchasing power, put together a wholesome N45m to buy him a form.
“Nigerians are still waiting for him to make public the proof of registration, membership, list of individual contributors and amount contributed by these shadowy individual members.
“We also challenge President Buhari to make public the official correspondences of the 12 million members of the Rice Farmers Association, members of the Fertilizer Producers Association and the members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association who, he claimed, offered to buy nomination form for him.
“Moreover, the PDP described as unpresidential, the outbursts credited to President Buhari against those who left the APC noting that such was an unwarranted attack on innocent Nigerians whose only offence is that they chose to abandon his derelict sinking ship, APC.
“Finally, the PDP counsels President Buhari to forget the idea of painting himself as a lover of youths and asking for funds from them, as his “lazy youth” comment and talking down on young persons not to contest against him in the 2019 election, amply convey his disdain for the Nigerian youths.