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The Presidency has blasted former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and the PDP for raising false alarm that President Bola Tinubu is planning to impose a one-party state on Nigeria.
The presidency, in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said in separate statements, the Peoples Democratic Party and the spokesman of Atiku Abubakar, its defeated Presidential candidate, threw caution to the winds as they assaulted the integrity of the judiciary and made wild and libelous allegations against Tinubu.
He said in the wake of the poor run of some elected governors of the party at the appeal court, the PDP and former Vice President and his spokesman had become overtly desperate to hang their woes on Tinubu and the judiciary, an important arm of government in Nigeria.
“In blaming others, Atiku and his party have failed to demonstrate whether they had done any soul-searching before going public with their weighty, specious, reckless and irresponsible allegations.
“While we do not hold brief for the judiciary, we urge Nigerians to discountenance the malicious allegations by the PDP and its candidate that President Tinubu as governor of Lagos, silenced the opposition and corrupted the judiciary and that he is planning to foist a one-party state on the country by appointing “loyalists” as Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs).
“President Tinubu is a democrat to the core. We make bold to say that as president, he has not interfered with the judgment of the judiciary. We had witnessed how under his watch the PDP governor in Osun defeated the APC at the Supreme Court. Similarly, the PDP Governor in Bauchi also won his case in the Appeal court, beating the APC…
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