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Thursday, 11 October 2018

Obasanjo promises to work with Atiku to defeat Buhari

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Obasanjo endorses Atiku in Abeokuta, calls Atiku 'President-in-Waiting'.

Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, arrived the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on the afternoon of Thursday, October 11, 2018 and received 'Baba Iyabo's' blessings ahead of a crucial vote for Nigeria, Pulse has just been told.
 
Atiku arrived the Obasanjo library complex at about 1:05pm alongside PDP Chairman Uche Secondus, Afenifere leader Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Atiku campaign organization Director-General and former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, Sheikh Gumi and Senator Ben-Murray Bruce, among others.
Bishop David Oyedepo of Winners Chapel and Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese Matthew Kukah were also part of the Atiku delegation to Obasanjo's home state, an indication that the church in Nigeria is favorably disposed to an Atiku presidency.

Enemies join forces against common foe

Atiku and Obasanjo endured a strained, frosty relationship as Vice President and President respectively from 1999 to 2007.
Obasanjo frustrated Atiku’s presidential bid in 2007 and publicly vowed never to support Atiku in his series of presidential bids since they both left office.
Today’s meeting was expected to mend some of that broken relationship and sources have told Pulse that Obasanjo is now open to backing Atiku against incumbent President Buhari who is the candidate of the APC for the 2019 contest.
Obasanjo can’t stand Buhari who he considers incompetent and who he has publicly berated as a failure.
“Obasanjo is now open to working with Atiku to defeat Buhari in 2019.
Another source at the meeting quoted Obasanjo as saying: “Let me congratulate the President-to-be Atiku Abubakar”.
Obasanjo is often consulted by politicians ahead of electioneering season. The former president famously turned his back on Jonathan before the 2015 election.
Jonathan lost the ballot to Buhari thereafter.
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Wednesday, 21 March 2018

PDP Says FG Scripted Dapchi Schoolgirls’ Abduction, Asks UN To Investigate

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Federal Government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of ‘scripting’ the abduction of the schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State.
The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday called on the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the incident, which it said was a scripted drama by the APC in the bid to seek re-election in 2019.
“Our Party considers this act as wicked, callous and tormenting to use innocent schoolgirls as pawns in an ignoble script that was designed to hoodwink Nigerians, all to push a 2019 reelection bid,” the statement issued in reaction to the release of most of the abducted girls read in part.
“While this failed Dapchi drama remains a poorly crafted tragicomedy: a scam of no equal dimension, Nigerians are not ready to forgive the APC and the Presidency for the torments inflicted on the girls.”
The party further alleged that there is no evidence to show that the schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents and demanded to see the reports by the National Security Adviser (NSA) who was asked by President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the abduction.
“There is no evidence that the Boko Haram insurgents or any militant group abducted the schoolgirls in the first place. Rather, what is evident to all is the high-level official manipulation of security movements in Dapchi both in the staged abduction and the returning of the traumatised schoolgirls.”
“It is instructive to note that till date, no report has been presented by the National Security Adviser (NSA), who has been charged by President Muhammadu Buhari with the investigation of the abduction. This is in addition to deliberate efforts by the government to suppress the free flow of information around the abduction.”
The PDP, therefore, called on the United Nations (UN) and the International Criminal Court to commence an investigation into the matter, demanding the arrest and prosecution of all those involved.
They also demand the setting up of a UN-monitored Truth Commission to unravel the facts around the Dapchi event as well as the abduction of Schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State in 2014.
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