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Press Statement
The
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reviewed the video of the media interview by
the Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, and surmised
that President Muhammadu Buhari should save the judiciary and the nation
further troubles by immediately throwing in the towel and vacating the
presidential seat following the official admission that he (Buhari) does not
possess a WAEC certificate, contrary to his claims and disposition before the
law.
Our party mocks the Buhari Presidency for pushing out the video
wherein the Minister pleaded with Nigerians to pardon President Buhari over his
false WAEC certificate claims.
PDP notes the deliberate ploy of Alhaji Lai Mohammed to appeal
to sentiments, seeing that Mr. President had failed to defend himself before
the Presidential petition tribunal.
The party berates the Buhari Presidency for believing that in
pushing the video into the public space, it could influence the mind of the
tribunal to bend the law after solid evidence have been presented before it
against President Buhari.
The PDP holds that the pronouncement and appeal for pardon
issued by the government’s spokesperson, who is also a lawyer, is a direct
guilt plea, which cannot save President Buhari from the course of justice in
this matter.
From the official pronouncement by the Minister on a national
television, it is no longer in dispute before all Nigerians that President
Buhari does not possess the educational certificate he claimed in the affidavit
he deposed to in his Presidential nomination form.
In this latest shenanigan, President Buhari and his handlers
ought to have known that the law, which the judiciary is bound to uphold, is a
respecter of no man.
The PDP reminds President Buhari of how his Presidency
vehemently applied the law in similar circumstance to remove a head of an arm
of government; a situation, which renders his plea for pardon a complete nullity
before the law.
The PDP holds that if President Buhari indeed seeks for pardon
from Nigerians, he should do the needful by toeing the path of honour and
vacating the Presidential seat without further delay.
It is disheartening that President Buhari and his All
Progressives Congress (APC) would put our nation through the troubles of legal
hassles when they knew all the while that they were building something on
nothing.
The PDP therefore urges the Judiciary to consider the evidence
before it and rescue our nation by expediting its verdict to point to nothing
other than the justice of the matter in the Presidential election petition.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary,
National Publicity Secretary,
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
September
8, 2019
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