President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met with a delegation of the National Peace Committee (NPC) led by former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar
on the dust raised by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in last week’s election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Briefing State House correspondents after the meeting with Buhari, Abdulsalami said he was pleased to hear that the PDP had decided to approach the court to seek redress instead of resorting to violence. He said “The Presidential election result has raised a lot of dust and the people feel aggrieved. Yesterday .I met the PDP Presidential candidate and his party.
Other members of the committee at the meeting with the president were the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Mathew Hassan Kukah, His Grace, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Catholic Bishop of Abuja Archdiocese.The Atiku Campaign Organization said that PDP flag bearer ,at the meetingcomplained that the presential election was “marked by militarization of the process, vote suppression, intimidation, and collaboration of security agencies, INEC and the ruling party to subvert the will of Nigerians.
“Atiku Abubakar further urges Nigerians to come out en masse and vote in the 9 March gubernatorial and state house of assembly elections for the PDP candidates and stay to defend their votes up to collation point.”At a separate press conference yesterday in Abuja,the national chairman of the PDP,Prince Uche Secondus dismissed suggestions that the party had reached a deal with the Abdulsalami committee to call off its planned legal action on the presidential election.
“So, whatever interpretation that was done by anybody, let it be clear to everybody that we did not give conditions, they did not request for conditions. Secondus said: “ at the last count, over 50 Nigerians lost their lives last Saturday, most of them from the South South region where a division of the army with their commander were turned on the people on the election day.”
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