Atiku claims Buhari not interested in credible elections

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar , has said President Muhammadu Buhari , who is also the candidate of the All Progressives Congress is not interested in ensuring free , fair and credible elections in 2019 .The PDP also alleged that the President was planning to extend the service of the Inspector – General of Police , Ibrahim Idris , in order to use him to manipulate the presidential elections in favour of the APC .

Atiku said this while speaking through the spokesperson for the PDP Presidential Campaign Council , Umar Sani , at a press briefing in Lagos on Sunday .

Also , the PDP ’ s rejection of the IGP ’ s tenure extension was stated at the same briefing which had the National Publicity Secretary of the party , Mr Kola Ologbondiyan , in attendance .

Atiku said it was evident that Buhari was not interested in credible elections because of his refusal to sign the Electoral Act ( Amendment ) Bill 2018 despite .

The PDP Presidential Campaign Council spokesperson said , “ Elections are usually manipulated at coalition centres and the amendments in the electoral bill has tried to prevent this but the President has refused to sign it .

“ When former President Goodluck Jonathan was in office , he was put under pressure to extend the service of the then IGP , MD Abubakar , but he did not succumb.

“ We will not accept this now , we won ’ t accept anything less than what was done then . A precedent has been set , so we won ’ t accept anything less. ”

Sani said Atiku had said he would engage younger persons with brilliant ideas and energy to drive the economy of the nation , adding that an enabling environment would be created for businesses to thrive .

This , he said , would translate to job creation while stressing that Atiku , who was an entrepreneur and a good manager of men and resources would unite the nation and reposition its economy to make life better for the people .

He explained that Atiku would also initiate the process of restructuring of the country which he had been promising in his electioneering , while urging the electorate to discountenance the alleged lie of the ruling party that the PDP candidate said he would restructure the country in six months .

Sani said it was not enough to have integrity , pointing out that Buhari had brought disaster to the economy and other aspects of the nation because he lacked the required competence to govern Nigeria .

Ologbondiyan stated that no administration in Nigeria has been found to be as corrupt as the Buhari administration .

The spokesperson for the opposition party said the President had refused to change members of his cabinet despite the allegations against some of them .

He said , “ We reject any extension of service for the IG . We in PDP reject this . We know what the President is planning to do by the extension of service . It is to use the IG to perpetrate his rigging plan .

“ We want to appeal to the IG to insulate Nigeria Police Force from partisan politics. From the body language of Mr President , it is evident that he is not ready for free and fair elections in 2019 . ”

Ologbondiyan said since it had been discovered that elections were rigged at collation centres , the Independent National Electoral Commission should allow European Union election observers and other credible election monitors to be at INEC situation room .

He alleged that the PDP candidate in Osun State governorship election , Senator Ademola Adeleke , won the poll but a call was made to the APC from the INEC situation room , saying the electoral body was instructed to fabricate a reason to declare the election inconclusive .

He said allowing credible election monitors to be present at the INEC situation rooms would prevent such manipulation to favour any of the political parties in the next year ’ s elections.

Meanwhile , in a statement made available to journalists , the PDP said Atiku has perfected a blueprint that will eliminate multiple taxation , slash income taxes , and commodity tax rates .

In the statement signed by Ologbondiyan , the opposition party said the blueprint would increase government funding to small and medium enterprises in key sectors of the economy .

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