PDP, Atiku Plotting To Overthrow Buhari – FG Cries Out

The Federal Government on Wednesday raised the alarm that the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its Presidential candidate in the February 23 election, Atiku Abubakar were allegedly making desperate efforts to scuttle President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

The Government also warned PDP and Atiku to quickly retrace their steps or risk an offense of treason against Nigeria government.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed while briefing State House Correspondents at the Presidential villa, said that it was unacceptable for the PDP and Atiku to resort to self help after suffering from election defeat.

The Minister alleged that the opposition party in its public utterances was in a desperate move to make Nigeria seemingly ungovernable. He recalled some of the statements credited to Alhaji Atiku before the 2019 general elections where he allegedly said that unless Nigerians voted out the APC administration, killings by herdsmen will continue and ultimately spark a series of ethno-religious crises that will be irreversible.

Mohammed in a the text he read said, “The Federal Government has strongly decried the increasingly unpatriotic and desperate opposition politics being played by the PDP and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, warning that such dead-end opposition could be toxic for the nation’s democracy, if left unchecked.

“Never in the history of politics in Nigeria has an opposition party and its presidential candidate exhibited the kind of desperate tactics being deployed by the duo of the PDP and its flag-bearer, especially since President Muhammadu Buhari overwhelmingly defeated Atiku to win the 2019 presidential election.

“Either by themselves or via their proxies, the PDP and its presidential candidate are doing everything possible to sabotage the Buhari Administration, generally overheat the polity and make Nigeria seemingly ungovernable, especially through their public utterances and their poorly-thought-out press releases before and after the 2019 general elections.

“Unless they quickly retrace their steps, they may sooner than later, overreach themselves. For those who may be quick to accuse the government of crying wolf, the pre-election statement credited to the former Vice President, that unless Nigerians vote out the APC Administration, killings by herdsmen will continue and ultimately spark a series of ethno-religious crises that will be irreversible, is looking more like a Freudian slip than anything else. Atiku, Obi congratulate Gov. Wike on his re-election

“Also, in recent times, the PDP has taken its desperation to a new low by attacking the judiciary, an action many see as indicating a reversal of the party’s hitherto self-assured stance that it has a solid case against the election of the President.

“And either by coincidence or orchestration, a faceless group emerges from nowhere calling for an overthrow of a democratically-elected government, a totally egregious act of treason.”

Continuing, he said, “It beggars belief that a candidate who prides himself as a Democrat can so allow desperation to becloud his sense of propriety to such a extent that he will be associating with anti-democratic forces or making inflammatory statements.”

Reacting, the PDP said the Presidency should focus on how to improve on their poor governance which has led to massive poverty in the country and stop looking for who to blame for their woos.