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Amina Zakari: PDP urges National Peace Committee to intervene

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OBIORA IFOH, Abuja

The PDP presidential campaign organization (PPCO) has called on the Abdulsalam Abubakar led National Peace Committee to speak out over the appointment of Amina Zakari as the chairperson of INEC Advisory Committee and Presidential election Collation Center Committee.

Specifically, the party want the committee to insist on her removal, to reportedly enhance “a credible and peaceful Presidential election”.

Speaking at a press conference held in Abuja on Sunday, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan alleged that a peaceful election is not guaranteed as long as Amina Zakari is in the commission.

“We want the National Peace Committee and the entire world to know that as long as Amina Zakari is in INEC, a peaceful election is not guaranteed because she has the mandate to abuse the process and this will not be accepted by Nigerians”.

The party also alerted the Chief Justice of Nigeria of alleged ongoing use of the Police to clamp down on opposition figures, particularly members of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council and outspoken CSOs on trumped-up criminal charges.

He said “our party is aware of plots by the Buhari Presidency to allegedly use Amina Zakari, who has been mentioned as part of those involved in the rigging of the 2018 governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states, to plunge the 2019 general elections into controversies, truncate the flow of results and even render elections in some critical states inconclusive, to pave way for allocation of fictitious votes to President Buhari and the APC”.

Continuing, Ologbondiyan alleged “Part of the plot is to charge individuals before certain compromised judicial officers, in various states, who have been briefed to detain, silence and put such opposition figures and CSO members out of circulation until after elections are concluded.

“Particular cases at hand are those of our Presidential Campaign Director on Civil Societies, Senator Dino Melaye, who is being hounded for his outspokenness against the misrule of the Buhari Presidency, as well as Civil Rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, who is widely believed to have been held down in prison because of his scathing criticism against the violations of the rights of Nigerians by the Buhari Presidency.

“The PPCO recalls that Senator Dino Melaye had earlier alerted of plots by the Police to arrest and poison him. His present ordeal as well as those of the civil rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, in the hands of the Buhari-led authorities, is incendiary in an election year and we insist that no harm must come to them or any member of the opposition or CSOs, before, during and after the elections.

“The PPCO is aware that the aim is to use the state apparatus of power to attempt to instill fear in Nigerians, stifle free speech, cow opposition and CSOs to silence so as to pave for President Buhari’s self-succession.

“This is a clear attempt to return our nation to the nightmares of the 1984 when draconian leaders forcefully subjugated innocent Nigerians under the grips of military Decree 2 and we urge the CJN to save our nation by insulating the judiciary from this ignoble scheme” Ologbondiyan added.

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